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CVE-2023-53435

kernel: cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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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.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified