CVE-2023-53261

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-09-15 Modified: 2026-10-30 First seen: 2026-10-30 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer->pointer There are memory leaks reported by kmemleak: ... unreferenced object 0xffff00213c141000 (size 1024): comm "systemd-udevd", pid 2123, jiffies 4294909467 (age 6062.160s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 04 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 18 10 14 3c 21 00 ff ff ...........<!... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000004b7c9001>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2f8/0x348 [<00000000b0fc7ceb>] __kmalloc+0x58/0x108 [<0000000064ff4695>] acpi_os_allocate+0x2c/0x68 [<000000007d57d116>] acpi_ut_initialize_buffer+0x54/0xe0 [<0000000024583908>] acpi_evaluate_object+0x388/0x438 [<0000000017b2e72b>] acpi_evaluate_object_typed+0xe8/0x240 [<000000005df0eac2>] coresight_get_platform_data+0x1b4/0x988 [coresight] ... The ACPI buffer memory (buf.pointer) should be freed. But the buffer is also used after returning from acpi_get_dsd_graph(). Move the temporary variables buf to acpi_coresight_parse_graph(), and free it before the function return to prevent memory leak.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (5)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 76ffa5ab5b79c250b9744b7f8bdd835db426a1ae < 10bbb7efcad40a06d7acfc0a14af21c19b496eff
Linux Linux 76ffa5ab5b79c250b9744b7f8bdd835db426a1ae < d1b60e7c9fee34eaedf1fc4e0471f75b33f83a4a
Linux Linux 76ffa5ab5b79c250b9744b7f8bdd835db426a1ae < 1a9e02673e2550f5612099e64e8761f0c8fc0f50
Linux Linux 5.3
linux linux_kernel 5.3 – 6.5.3

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.15%
Raw Score 0.001460
Percentile 3.9%
Date 2026-11-02

EPSS Trend

2026-11-02
0.00146
2026-11-01
0.00146
2026-10-31
0.00146
2026-10-30
0.00130
2026-10-29
0.00130

Intelligence Sources

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