CVE-2023-53514

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-10-01 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 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: gpu: host1x: Fix memory leak of device names The device names allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed before module unloading, but they can not be freed because the kobject's refcount which was set in device_initialize() has not be decreased to 0. As comment of device_add() says, if it fails, use only put_device() drop the refcount, then the name will be freed in kobejct_cleanup(). device_del() and put_device() can be replaced with device_unregister(), so call it to unregister the added successfully devices, and just call put_device() to the not added device. Add a release() function to device to avoid null release() function WARNING in device_release(), it's empty, because the context devices are freed together in host1x_memory_context_list_free().

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (6)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 8aa5bcb61612060429223d1fbb7a1c30a579fc1f < 958c6cbc32996c375af42db96ceba021a1959899
Linux Linux 8aa5bcb61612060429223d1fbb7a1c30a579fc1f < dba1aeaaf3d0e2f996cb0a5609e5e85ecf405a5c
Linux Linux 8aa5bcb61612060429223d1fbb7a1c30a579fc1f < 3ab0f5ddb761270b11d8c90b8550a59666cfc9bb
Linux Linux 8aa5bcb61612060429223d1fbb7a1c30a579fc1f < 55879dad0f3ae8468444b42f785ad79eac05fe5b
Linux Linux 6.0
linux linux_kernel 6.0 – 6.1.28

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 0.001480
Percentile 4.1%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00148
2026-11-13
0.00148
2026-11-12
0.00148
2026-11-10
0.00148
2026-11-09
0.00148
2026-11-08
0.00148
2026-11-07
0.00148
2026-11-06
0.00148
2026-11-05
0.00148

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