{"cve":"CVE-2023-53261","nvd":{"published":"2025-09-15T15:15:53.540","modified":"2026-10-30T13:17:17.997","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncoresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer->pointer\n\nThere are memory leaks reported by kmemleak:\n...\nunreferenced object 0xffff00213c141000 (size 1024):\n  comm \"systemd-udevd\", pid 2123, jiffies 4294909467 (age 6062.160s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    04 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 18 10 14 3c 21 00 ff ff  ...........<!...\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 10 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [<000000004b7c9001>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2f8/0x348\n    [<00000000b0fc7ceb>] __kmalloc+0x58/0x108\n    [<0000000064ff4695>] acpi_os_allocate+0x2c/0x68\n    [<000000007d57d116>] acpi_ut_initialize_buffer+0x54/0xe0\n    [<0000000024583908>] acpi_evaluate_object+0x388/0x438\n    [<0000000017b2e72b>] acpi_evaluate_object_typed+0xe8/0x240\n    [<000000005df0eac2>] coresight_get_platform_data+0x1b4/0x988 [coresight]\n...\n\nThe ACPI buffer memory (buf.pointer) should be freed. But the buffer\nis also used after returning from acpi_get_dsd_graph().\nMove the temporary variables buf to acpi_coresight_parse_graph(),\nand free it before the function return to prevent memory leak.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-401"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10bbb7efcad40a06d7acfc0a14af21c19b496eff","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a9e02673e2550f5612099e64e8761f0c8fc0f50","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1b60e7c9fee34eaedf1fc4e0471f75b33f83a4a"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-30T13:47:47.119061695+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-53261","score":0.0013,"percentile":0.0264,"date":"2026-10-30"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}