CVE-2023-53858

A memory leak vulnerability was found in the Samsung serial TTY driver in the Linux kernel. In s3c24xxserialgetclk, when clkgetrate fails, the previously allocated clock resource is not freed, leading to a memory leak. Repeated failures can cause resource exhaustion...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53858

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - tty: serial: samsungtty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xxserialgetclk in case of error If clkgetrate fails, the clk that has just been allocated needs to be freed...