{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53261 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53261 is a medium-severity denial of service 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53261 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53261 is a medium-severity denial of service 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53261 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53261/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53261/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53261","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53261/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53261","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53261","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53261","GHSA-5qhg-ffc9-x697","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-53261","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2023-53261","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53261","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53261"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's coresight driver allows attackers to exhaust system memory, causing denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-401","name":"Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncoresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer-\u003epointer\n\nThere are memory leaks reported by kmemleak:\n...\nunreferenced object 0xffff00213c141000 (size 1024):\n  comm \"systemd-udevd\", pid 2123, jiffies 4294909467 (age 6062.160s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    04 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 18 10 14 3c 21 00 ff ff  ...........\u003c!...\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 10 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000004b7c9001\u003e] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2f8/0x348\n    [\u003c00000000b0fc7ceb\u003e] __kmalloc+0x58/0x108\n    [\u003c0000000064ff4695\u003e] acpi_os_allocate+0x2c/0x68\n    [\u003c000000007d57d116\u003e] acpi_ut_initialize_buffer+0x54/0xe0\n    [\u003c0000000024583908\u003e] acpi_evaluate_object+0x388/0x438\n    [\u003c0000000017b2e72b\u003e] acpi_evaluate_object_typed+0xe8/0x240\n    [\u003c000000005df0eac2\u003e] coresight_get_platform_data+0x1b4/0x988 [coresight]\n...\n\nThe ACPI buffer memory (buf.pointer) should be freed. But the buffer\nis also used after returning from acpi_get_dsd_graph().\nMove the temporary variables buf to acpi_coresight_parse_graph(),\nand free it before the function return to prevent memory leak.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"coresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer-\u003epointer","id":"CVE-2023-53261","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"f2fs: fix scheduling while atomic in decompression path","id":"CVE-2023-53262"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_permission()","id":"CVE-2023-53260"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-09-15","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's coresight driver allows attackers to exhaust system memory, causing denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53261/"}