CVE-2023-53697
nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu()
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
22 Oct 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu()
Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in function
'register_nvdimm_pmu' and is lost after 'kfree(nd_pmu)' call in function
'unregister_nvdimm_pmu'.
Affected products
Linux · Linux