{"id":"CVE-2023-54115","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-54115","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:13:38.795Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pcmcia: rsrc_nonstatic: Fix memory leak in nonstatic_release_resource_db() When nonstatic_release_resource_db() frees all resources associated with an PCMCIA socket, it forgets to free…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npcmcia: rsrc_nonstatic: Fix memory leak in nonstatic_release_resource_db()\n\nWhen nonstatic_release_resource_db() frees all resources associated\nwith an PCMCIA socket, it forgets to free socket_data too, causing\na memory leak observable with kmemleak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xc28d1000 (size 64):\n  comm \"systemd-udevd\", pid 297, jiffies 4294898478 (age 194.484s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 85 0e c3 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 0c 10 8d c2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [<ffda4245>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2d7/0x4a0\n    [<7e51f0c8>] kmalloc_trace+0x31/0xa4\n    [<d52b4ca0>] nonstatic_init+0x24/0x1a4 [pcmcia_rsrc]\n    [<a2f13e08>] pcmcia_register_socket+0x200/0x35c [pcmcia_core]\n    [<a728be1b>] yenta_probe+0x4d8/0xa70 [yenta_socket]\n    [<c48fac39>] pci_device_probe+0x99/0x194\n    [<84b7c690>] really_probe+0x181/0x45c\n    [<8060fe6e>] __driver_probe_device+0x75/0x1f4\n    [<b9b76f43>] driver_probe_device+0x28/0xac\n    [<648b766f>] __driver_attach+0xeb/0x1e4\n    [<6e9659eb>] bus_for_each_dev+0x61/0xb4\n    [<25a669f3>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x28\n    [<d8671d6b>] bus_add_driver+0x102/0x20c\n    [<df0d323c>] driver_register+0x5b/0x120\n    [<942cd8a4>] __pci_register_driver+0x44/0x4c\n    [<e536027e>] __UNIQUE_ID___addressable_cleanup_module188+0x1c/0xfffff000 [iTCO_vendor_support]\n\nFix this by freeing socket_data too.\n\nTested on a Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi by manually binding/unbinding\nthe yenta_cardbus driver (yenta_socket).","published":"2025-12-24T13:16:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T06:46:50.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":null,"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00219,"percentile":0.12307,"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":"unknown","text":"Not yet scored. NVD analysis is pending; check back once CVSS and EPSS values are published."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04bb8af40a7729c398ed4caea7e66cedd2881719","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22100df1d57f04cf2370d5347b9ef547f481deea","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d45e2be0be35a3d66863563ed2591ee18a6897e","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97fd1c8e9c5aa833aab7e836760bc13103afa892","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bde0b6da7bd893c37afaee3555cc3ac3be582313","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c85fd9422fe0f5d667305efb27f56d09eab120b0","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8a80cf06b4bb0396212289d651b384c949f09d0","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd53a1f28faba2c4806c055e706a7721006291c1","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54115","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."}