CVE-2023-53424: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: mediatek: fix ofiomap memory leak Smatch reports: drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c:583 mtkclksimpleprobe warn: 'base' from ofiomap not released on lines: 496. This problem was also found in linux-next. In mtkclksimpleprobe, ba...

The vulnerability of the mtk_clk_simple_probe() function in the drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c kernel of the Linux operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the mtkclksimpleprobe function in the drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c module of the Linux operating system is related to insufficient locking of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...