CVE-2023-53682 hwmon: (xgene) Fix ioremap and memremap leak

What is CVE-2023-53682?

CVE-2023-53682 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Oct 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:

hwmon: (xgene) Fix ioremap and memremap leak

Smatch reports:

drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c:757 xgene_hwmon_probe() warn: 'ctx->pcc_comm_addr' from ioremap() not released on line: 757.

This is because in drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c:701 xgene_hwmon_probe(), ioremap and memremap is not released, which may cause a leak.

To fix this, ioremap and memremap is modified to devm_ioremap and devm_memremap.

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Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53682?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53682?

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-2023-53682 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53682 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-76425, BELL-CVE-2023-53682, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53682, GHSA-hvv3-fjwq-p2f6, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-53682, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53682 and 1 more.