CVE-2023-53014 dmaengine: tegra: Fix memory leak in terminate_all()

What is CVE-2023-53014?

CVE-2023-53014 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

dmaengine: tegra: Fix memory leak in terminate_all()

Terminate vdesc when terminating an ongoing transfer. This will ensure that the vdesc is present in the desc_terminated list The descriptor will be freed later in desc_free_list().

This fixes the memory leaks which can happen when terminating an ongoing transfer.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53014?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53014?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-53014 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53014 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-53014, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53014, GHSA-v3mg-hw7c-8v25, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53014.