Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53173

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - tty: pcnuart: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup When calling debugfslookup the result must have dput called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over...

CVE-2023-53173

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: pcnuart: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup When calling debugfslookup the result must have dput called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfslookupandremove instead...

CVE-2023-53173

In CVE-2023-53173, the Linux kernel tty pcn_uart driver had a memory leak when using debugfs_lookup() because the returned object wasn’t always released with dput(). The recommended fix is to call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() to perform the lookup and cleanup in one step, mitigating the leak.