CVE-2023-53567

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: qup: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path Returning early in a platform driver's remove callback is wrong. In this case the dma resources are not released in the error path. this is never retried later and so this is a permanent leak. To fix this, only skip hardware disabling if waking the device fails.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 1.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status draft

Affected Products (1)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.19.283

Timeline

Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026