CVE-2023-53191 irqchip/alpine-msi: Fix refcount leak in alpine_msix_init_domains

What is CVE-2023-53191?

CVE-2023-53191 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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:

irqchip/alpine-msi: Fix refcount leak in alpine_msix_init_domains

of_irq_find_parent() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, We should use of_node_put() on it when not needed anymore. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53191?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53191?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2023-53191 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53191 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-2023-53191, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53191, GHSA-m2pr-695m-hjxr, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53191.