CVE-2023-53330

Updated on 16 Sep 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

caif: fix memory leak in cfctrl_linkup_request()

When linktype is unknown or kzalloc failed in cfctrl_linkup_request(), pkt is not released. Add release process to error path.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+13 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

caif: fix memory leak in cfctrl_linkup_request()

When linktype is unknown or kzalloc failed in cfctrl_linkup_request(), pkt is not released. Add release process to error path.

Fixes