Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025
dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure
CVE-2023-53181
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure
Currently dma_resv_get_fences() will leak the previously allocated array if the fence iteration got restarted and the krealloc_array() fails.
Free the old array by hand, and make sure we still clear the returned *fences so the caller won't end up accessing freed memory. Some (but not all) of the callers of dma_resv_get_fences() seem to still trawl through the array even when dma_resv_get_fences() failed. And let's zero out *num_fences as well for good measure.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 5.16
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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