clk: mediatek: fix of_iomap memory leak
CVE-2023-53424

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Key Information:

Vendor

Linux

Status
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 September 2025

What is CVE-2023-53424?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clk: mediatek: fix of_iomap memory leak

Smatch reports: drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c:583 mtk_clk_simple_probe() warn: 'base' from of_iomap() not released on lines: 496.

This problem was also found in linux-next. In mtk_clk_simple_probe(), base is not released when handling errors if clk_data is not existed, which may cause a leak. So free_base should be added here to release base.

Affected Version(s)

Linux c58cd0e40ffac67961b945793876b973728f9b80 < 2cae6a28d8c12c597e8656962271520434c61c48

Linux c58cd0e40ffac67961b945793876b973728f9b80 < 47234e19b00816a8a7b278c7173f6d4e928c43c7

Linux c58cd0e40ffac67961b945793876b973728f9b80 < 3db7285e044144fd88a356f5b641b9cd4b231a77

References

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2023-53424 : Memory Leak in Mediatek Clock Driver of Linux Kernel