CVE-2023-53518

Updated on 01 Oct 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:

PM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release()

srcu_init_notifier_head() allocates resources that need to be released with a srcu_cleanup_notifier_head() call.

Reported by kmemleak.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+8 more)

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

PM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release()

srcu_init_notifier_head() allocates resources that need to be released with a srcu_cleanup_notifier_head() call.

Reported by kmemleak.

Fixes