Bug 2395317 (CVE-2023-53196)

Summary: CVE-2023-53196 kernel: usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:07:12 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-09-15 22:11:32 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091559-CVE-2023-53196-c59a@gregkh/T