2402202 – (CVE-2023-53617) CVE-2023-53617 kernel: soc: aspeed: socinfo: Add kfree for kstrdup

Bug 2402202 (CVE-2023-53617) - CVE-2023-53617 kernel: soc: aspeed: socinfo: Add kfree for kstrdup

Summary: CVE-2023-53617 kernel: soc: aspeed: socinfo: Add kfree for kstrdup

Keywords:
Status:	NEW
Alias:	CVE-2023-53617
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	unspecified
Severity:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
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Reported:	2025-10-07 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified:	2025-11-26 12:18 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-07 16:02:36 UTC

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

soc: aspeed: socinfo: Add kfree for kstrdup

Add kfree() in the later error handling in order to avoid memory leak.

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-10-07 20:44:24 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100708-CVE-2023-53617-909b@gregkh/T

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