CVE-2023-54208

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54208
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54208.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-54208
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-12-30T12:11:07.336Z
Modified
2026-04-02T09:45:40.739610Z
Summary
media: ov5675: Fix memleak in ov5675_init_controls()
Details

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

media: ov5675: Fix memleak in ov5675initcontrols()

There is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/ov5675.c with bpf mock device:

AssertionError: unreferenced object 0xffff888107362160 (size 16): comm "python3", pid 277, jiffies 4294832798 (age 20.722s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000abe7d67c>] __kmallocnode+0x44/0x1b0 [<000000008a725aac>] kvmallocnode+0x34/0x180 [<000000009a53cd11>] v4l2ctrlhandlerinitclass+0x11d/0x180 [videodev] [<0000000055b46db0>] ov5675probe+0x38b/0x897 [ov5675] [<00000000153d886c>] i2cdeviceprobe+0x28d/0x680 [<000000004afb7e8f>] reallyprobe+0x17c/0x3f0 [<00000000ff2f18e4>] __driverprobedevice+0xe3/0x170 [<000000000a001029>] driverprobedevice+0x49/0x120 [<00000000e39743c7>] __deviceattachdriver+0xf7/0x150 [<00000000d32fd070>] bus_foreachdrv+0x114/0x180 [<000000009083ac41>] __deviceattach+0x1e5/0x2d0 [<0000000015b4a830>] busprobedevice+0x126/0x140 [<000000007813deaf>] deviceadd+0x810/0x1130 [<000000007becb867>] i2cnewclientdevice+0x386/0x540 [<000000007f9cf4b4>] ofi2cregisterdevice+0xf1/0x110 [<00000000ebfdd032>] ofi2cnotify+0xfc/0x1f0

ov5675initcontrols() won't clean all the allocated resources in fail path, which may causes the memleaks. Add v4l2ctrlhandler_free() to prevent memleak.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/54xxx/CVE-2023-54208.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
bf27502b1f3bf8095bf81736e506d354a2ce9ec4
Fixed
086a80b842bcb621d6c4eedad20683f1f674d0c2
Fixed
bcae9115a163198dce9126aa8bedc1c007ec30ed
Fixed
ba54908ae8225d58f1830edb394d4153bcb7d0aa
Fixed
49b849824b9862f177fc77fc92ef95ec54566ecf
Fixed
7a36a6be694df87d019663863b922913947b42af
Fixed
dd74ed6c213003533e3abf4c204374ef01d86978

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54208.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.4.0
Fixed
5.4.235
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.173
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.99
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.2.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54208.json"