Bug 2420332 (CVE-2023-53858) - CVE-2023-53858 kernel: tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() in case of error
Summary: CVE-2023-53858 kernel: tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53858
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 02:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-12 19:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:03:34 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() in case of error

If clk_get_rate() fails, the clk that has just been allocated needs to be
freed.
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-12-09 20:23:00 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120904-CVE-2023-53858-87d4@gregkh/T
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