DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53697

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53697

    Published: 22 Oct 2025Last Modified: 15 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-53697

    Summary:

    Details: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu() Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in function 'register_nvdimm_pmu' and is lost after 'kfree(nd_pmu)' call in function 'unregister_nvdimm_pmu'.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53697

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.1.55-1

    Affected versions

    6.1.27-1
    6.1.37-1
    6.1.38-1
    6.1.38-2
    6.1.38-2~bpo11+1
    6.1.38-3
    6.1.38-4
    6.1.38-4~bpo11+1
    6.1.52-1
    6.1.55-1~bpo11+1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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