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CVE-2023-53700

Severity not reported
Data quality: partial. Some fields were not provided by the source.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: max9286: Fix memleak in max9286_v4l2_register() There is a kmemleak when testing t…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: max9286: Fix memleak in max9286_v4l2_register() There is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/max9286.c with bpf mock device: kmemleak: 5 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) unreferenced object 0xffff88810defc400 (size 256): comm "python3", pid 278, jiffies 4294737563 (age 31.978s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 28 06 a7 0a 81 88 ff ff 00 fe 22 12 81 88 ff ff (........."..... 10 c4 ef 0d 81 88 ff ff 10 c4 ef 0d 81 88 ff ff ................ backtrace: [] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0 [] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180 [] v4l2_ctrl_new+0x325/0x10f0 [videodev] [] v4l2_ctrl_new_std+0x16f/0x210 [videodev] [] max9286_probe+0x76e/0xbff [max9286] [] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680 [] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0 [] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170 [] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120 [] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150 [] bus_for_each_drv+0x114/0x180 [] __device_attach+0x1e5/0x2d0 [] bus_probe_device+0x126/0x140 [] device_add+0x810/0x1130 [] i2c_new_client_device+0x359/0x4f0 [] of_i2c_register_device+0xf1/0x110 max9286_v4l2_register() calls v4l2_ctrl_new_std(), but won't free the created v412_ctrl when fwnode_graph_get_endpoint_by_id() failed, which causes the memleak. Call v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() to free the v412_ctrl.

CVSS
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Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-10-22 14:15
Modified: 2026-10-28 19:10
NVD status: Deferred
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 19:26 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

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