CVE-2023-52937

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52937
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52937.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-52937
Downstream
Published
2025-03-27T17:15:43Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
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
[none]
Details

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

HV: hvballoon: 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.

References

Affected packages