Riskcovery

CVE-2023-53359

USB: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Sep 17, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2025

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Description

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

USB: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic at once.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9c174b57c98e78310a15cf9808cf417fa4a65d9b to before 6683327b51a601daba32900072349dfa1d4e8feaAffected
  • 9c174b57c98e78310a15cf9808cf417fa4a65d9b to before c68ece7baf2aa9783b8244482c03010d477d4a93Affected
  • 9c174b57c98e78310a15cf9808cf417fa4a65d9b to before cc00340fb1226a2a3a5cf15473ac417da3c952f1Affected
  • 9c174b57c98e78310a15cf9808cf417fa4a65d9b to before 30374434edab20e25776f8ecb4bc9d1e54309487Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.13Affected
  • before 5.13Not affected
  • 5.15.100 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.18 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.5 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

References

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