CVE-2023-53211

driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld before return false

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Sep 15, 2025
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Sep 15, 2025

Description

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

driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld before return false

struct acpi_pld_info *pld should be freed before the return of allocation failure, to prevent memory leak, add the ACPI_FREE() to fix it.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	bc443c31def574e3bfaed50cb493b8305ad79435 to before 8fe72b8f59f63ca776bb8a4fcd2f406057a9fc90Affected bc443c31def574e3bfaed50cb493b8305ad79435 to before 5a9de90951bbeaed775e4b8d1b16b4d359e82bf5Affected bc443c31def574e3bfaed50cb493b8305ad79435 to before 0d150f967e8410e1e6712484543eec709356a65dAffected
LinuxLinux	5.19Affected before 5.19Not affected 6.1.16 through 6.1.Not affected 6.2.3 through 6.2.Not affected 6.3 and laterNot affected

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