CVE-2023-53435
kernel: cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()
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Published · September 18, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()
cas_saturn_firmware_init() allocates some memory using vmalloc(). This memory is freed in the .remove() function but not it the error handling path of the probe.
Add the missing vfree() to avoid a memory leak, should an error occur.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
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