Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()
CVE-2023-53435
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()
cas_saturn_firmware_init() allocates some memory using vmalloc(). This memory is freed in the .remove() function but not it the error handling path of the probe.
Add the missing vfree() to avoid a memory leak, should an error occur.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 2.6.28
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c0ed097a874156957b515d0ba7e356142eab87mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/172146c26f0c1b86ab4e9ebffc7e06f04229fa17mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/234e744d86bd95b381d24546df2dba72804e0219mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/412cd77a2c24b191c65ea53025222418db09817cmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/60d8e8b88087d68e10c8991a0f6733fa2f963ff0mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8b1a667744741fa7807b09a12797a27f14f3facmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc61f7582cc92d547d02e141cd66f5d1f4ed8012mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e20105d967ab5b53ff50a0e5991fe37324d2ba20mitre
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