CVE-2023-53279

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53279
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53279.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53279
Downstream
Published
2025-09-16T08:11:13.712Z
Modified
2026-03-09T23:55:36.874164Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

misc: vmwballoon: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup()

When calling debugfslookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfslookupandremove() instead which handles all of the logic at once.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53279.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
37b85bd5f20cbe28140d370a840738b6f2e85cbf
Fixed
b94b39bf3d545671f210a2257d18e33c8b874699
Fixed
d1c545e44c1ec08bef0c0c14e632eec516431e9c
Fixed
f7651fa88b17c2d7af949981a2423179db5e9453
Fixed
209cdbd07cfaa4b7385bad4eeb47e5ec1887d33d

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53279.json"