CVE-2023-53211

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in ACPI PLD Info Handling

Title source: llm

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld before return false struct acpi_pld_info *pld should be freed before the return of allocation failure, to prevent memory leak, add the ACPI_FREE() to fix it.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fe72b8f59f63ca776bb8a4fcd2f406057a9fc90

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a9de90951bbeaed775e4b8d1b16b4d359e82bf5

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d150f967e8410e1e6712484543eec709356a65d

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0014

EPSS Percentile 3.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Products (9)

Linux/Linux < 5.19

Linux/Linux 5.19

Linux/Linux 6.1.16 - 6.1.*

Linux/Linux 6.2.3 - 6.2.*

Linux/Linux 6.3

Linux/Linux bc443c31def574e3bfaed50cb493b8305ad79435 - 0d150f967e8410e1e6712484543eec709356a65d

Linux/Linux bc443c31def574e3bfaed50cb493b8305ad79435 - 5a9de90951bbeaed775e4b8d1b16b4d359e82bf5

Linux/Linux bc443c31def574e3bfaed50cb493b8305ad79435 - 8fe72b8f59f63ca776bb8a4fcd2f406057a9fc90

linux/linux_kernel 5.19 - 6.1.16

Published Sep 15, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026