{"id":"CVE-2023-52653","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-52653","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:13:22.803Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: fix a memleak in gss_import_v2_context The ctx->mech_used.data allocated by kmemdup is not freed in neither gss_import_v2_context nor it only caller gss_krb5_import_sec_context,…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: fix a memleak in gss_import_v2_context\n\nThe ctx->mech_used.data allocated by kmemdup is not freed in neither\ngss_import_v2_context nor it only caller gss_krb5_import_sec_context,\nwhich frees ctx on error.\n\nThus, this patch reform the last call of gss_import_v2_context to the\ngss_krb5_import_ctx_v2, preventing the memleak while keepping the return\nformation.","published":"2024-05-01T13:15:48.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T06:43:16.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-401"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00275,"percentile":0.19677,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47ac11db93e74ac49cd6c3fc69bcbc5964c4a8b4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99044c01ed5329e73651c054d8a4baacdbb1a27c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d111e30d9cd846bb368faf3637dc0f71fcbcf822","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e67b652d8e8591d3b1e569dbcdfcee15993e91fa","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47ac11db93e74ac49cd6c3fc69bcbc5964c4a8b4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99044c01ed5329e73651c054d8a4baacdbb1a27c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d111e30d9cd846bb368faf3637dc0f71fcbcf822","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e67b652d8e8591d3b1e569dbcdfcee15993e91fa","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52653","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}