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CVE-2023-53449

Medium 5.5

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/dasd: Fix potential memleak in dasd_eckd_init() `dasd_reserve_req` is allocated before `dasd_vol_info_req`, and it also needs to be freed before the error returns, just like the other cases in this function.

Affected products

linux: linux kernel

References6

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUM Score source: NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
0% percentile: 5 · as of 9 November 2026
CWE
CWE-401

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