CVE-2023-53674

MEDIUM

MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100

Published: 2025-10-07 Modified: 2026-10-28 First seen: 2026-10-29 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: clk: Fix memory leak in devm_clk_notifier_register() devm_clk_notifier_register() allocates a devres resource for clk notifier but didn't register that to the device, so the notifier didn't get unregistered on device detach and the allocated resource was leaked. Fix the issue by registering the resource through devres_add(). This issue was found with kmemleak on a Chromebook.

Weakness Classification (1)

CWE-401

Affected Software (8)

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	5.11 – 5.15.121
linux	linux_kernel	5.16 – 6.1.39
linux	linux_kernel	6.2 – 6.3.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.4 – 6.4.4
linux	linux_kernel	5.11 – 5.15.121
linux	linux_kernel	5.16 – 6.1.39
linux	linux_kernel	6.2 – 6.3.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.4 – 6.4.4