CVE-2023-53196 (GCVE-0-2023-53196)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:06 – Updated: 2025-09-15 14:06
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Title
usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak Function dwc3_qcom_probe() allocates memory for resource structure which is pointed by parent_res pointer. This memory is not freed. This leads to memory leak. Use stack memory to prevent memory leak. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
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Linux Linux Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < 648a163cff21ea355c8765e882ba8bf66a870a3e (git)
Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < 74f8606ddfa450d2255b4e61472a7632def1e8c4 (git)
Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < b626cd5e4a87a281629e0c2b07519990077c0fbe (git)
Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < c3b322b84ab5dda7eaca9ded763628b7467734f4 (git)
Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < 134a7d4642f11daed6bbc378f930a54dd0322291 (git)
Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < 097fb3ee710d4de83b8d4f5589e8ee13e0f0541e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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