CWE-401— Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (Memory Leak)
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.— MITRE CWE catalog
2,038 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
CVEs classified under CWE-401page 22 of 41
- CVE-2025-39830MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path In the error path of hws_pool_buddy_init(), the buddy allocator cleanup doesn't free the allocator struc…
- CVE-2023-53303MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: microchip: vcap api: Fix possible memory leak for vcap_dup_rule() Inject fault When select CONFIG_VCAP_KUNIT_TEST, the below memory leak occurs. If kzalloc() for du…
- CVE-2023-53300MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: hi846: Fix memleak in hi846_init_controls() hi846_init_controls doesn't clean the allocated ctrl_hdlr in case there is a failure, which causes memleak. Add v4l2_c…
- CVE-2023-53299MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid10: fix leak of 'r10bio->remaining' for recovery raid10_sync_request() will add 'r10bio->remaining' for both rdev and replacement rdev. However, if the read io fa…
- CVE-2023-53298MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: fix memory leak of se_io context in nfc_genl_se_io The callback context for sending/receiving APDUs to/from the selected secure element is allocated inside nfc_genl…
- CVE-2023-53290MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: samples/bpf: Fix fout leak in hbm's run_bpf_prog Fix fout being fopen'ed but then not subsequently fclose'd. In the affected branch, fout is otherwise going out of scope.
- CVE-2023-53288MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe When a new mode is set to modeset->mode, the previous mode should be freed. This fixes the following kmemleak rep…
- CVE-2023-53279MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak ove…
- CVE-2023-53278MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init() When insmod ubifs.ko, a kmemleak reported as below: unreferenced object 0xffff88817fb1a780 (size 8): comm "insmod", pid…
- CVE-2023-53276MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name When opening a ubifs tmpfile on an encrypted directory, function fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for the name that is to be s…
- CVE-2023-53271MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume() There is a memory leaks problem reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff888102007a00 (s…
- CVE-2023-53267MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver: soc: xilinx: fix memory leak in xlnx_add_cb_for_notify_event() The kfree() should be called when memory fails to be allocated for cb_data in xlnx_add_cb_for_noti…
- CVE-2023-53266MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: acpi: Fix possible memory leak of ffh_ctxt Allocated 'ffh_ctxt' memory leak is possible if the SMCCC version and conduit checks fail and -EOPNOTSUPP is returned w…
- CVE-2023-53264MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: imx: clk-imxrt1050: fix memory leak in imxrt1050_clocks_probe Use devm_of_iomap() instead of of_iomap() to automatically handle the unused ioremap region. If any er…
- CVE-2023-53261MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer->pointer There are memory leaks reported by kmemleak: ... unreferenced object 0xffff00213c141000 (size 1024): comm "systemd-u…
- CVE-2023-53255MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: stratix10-svc: Fix a potential resource leak in svc_create_memory_pool() svc_create_memory_pool() is only called from stratix10_svc_drv_probe(). Most of resour…
- CVE-2023-53249MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: imx: clk-imx8mn: fix memory leak in imx8mn_clocks_probe Use devm_of_iomap() instead of of_iomap() to automatically handle the unused ioremap region. If any error o…
- CVE-2023-53241MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: call op_release, even when op_func returns an error For ops with "trivial" replies, nfsd4_encode_operation will shortcut most of the encoding work and skip to just…
- CVE-2023-53234MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: watchdog: Fix kmemleak in watchdog_cdev_register kmemleak reports memory leaks in watchdog_dev_register, as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff888116233000 (size 2048): …
- CVE-2023-53230MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix warning in cifs_smb3_do_mount() This fixes the following warning reported by kernel test robot fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c:982 cifs_smb3_do_mount() warn: …
- CVE-2023-53225MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: imx: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path Returning early in a platform driver's remove callback is wrong. In this case the dma resources are not released in t…
- CVE-2023-53224MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Fix function prototype mismatch for ext4_feat_ktype With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG), indirect call targets are validated agains…
- CVE-2023-53221MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix memleak due to fentry attach failure If it fails to attach fentry, the allocated bpf trampoline image will be left in the system. That can be verified by checki…
- CVE-2023-53211MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld before return false struct acpi_pld_info *pld should be freed before the return of allocation failure, to prevent m…
- CVE-2023-53202MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM: domains: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time…
- CVE-2023-53200MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: x_tables: fix percpu counter block leak on error path when creating new netns Here is the stack where we allocate percpu counter block: +-< __alloc_percpu …
- CVE-2022-50331MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new() Inject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails, but the refcount of kobject is not decreased …
- CVE-2022-50326MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: airspy: fix memory leak in airspy probe The commit ca9dc8d06ab6 ("media: airspy: respect the DMA coherency rules") moves variable buf from stack to heap, however…
- CVE-2022-50324MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: maps: pxa2xx-flash: fix memory leak in probe Free 'info' upon remapping error to avoid a memory leak. [<miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>: Reword the commit log]
- CVE-2022-50321MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential memory leak in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() The brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of pskb_expand_head…
- CVE-2022-50316MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_sysfs_init() When insert and remove the orangefs module, there are kobjects memory leaked as below: unreferenced object 0xffff88810f9…
- CVE-2022-50312MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: serial: jsm: fix some leaks in probe This error path needs to unwind instead of just returning directly.
- CVE-2022-50304MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: core: fix possible resource leak in init_mtd() I got the error report while inject fault in init_mtd(): sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/b…
- CVE-2022-50294MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: libertas: fix memory leak in lbs_init_adapter() When kfifo_alloc() failed in lbs_init_adapter(), cmd buffer is not released. Add free memory to processing error pa…
- CVE-2022-50289MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() ocfs2_table_header should be free in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() if ocfs2_sysfs_init() failed, otherwise kmemleak will repo…
- CVE-2022-50287MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/bios: fix a memory leak in generate_lfp_data_ptrs When (size != 0 || ptrs->lvds_ entries != 3), the program tries to free() the ptrs. However, the ptrs is not c…
- CVE-2022-50284MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() When setup_mq_sysctls() failed in init_mqueue_fs(), mqueue_inode_cachep is not released. In order to fix this issue, the releas…
- CVE-2022-50281MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: SGI-IP27: Fix platform-device leak in bridge_platform_create() In error case in bridge_platform_create after calling platform_device_add()/platform_device_add_data…
- CVE-2022-50278MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev() After commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated d…
- CVE-2022-50275MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/radeon: Add the missed acpi_put_table() to fix memory leak When the radeon driver reads the bios information from ACPI table in radeon_acpi_vfct_bios(), it misses to…
- CVE-2022-50269MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init() A memory leak was reported after the vkms module install failed. unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc28520 (size 16): comm "modp…
- CVE-2022-50264MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: socfpga: Fix memory leak in socfpga_gate_init() Free @socfpga_clk and @ops on the error path to avoid memory leak issue.
- CVE-2022-50263MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpasim: fix memory leak when freeing IOTLBs After commit bda324fd037a ("vdpasim: control virtqueue support"), vdpasim->iommu became an array of IOTLB, so we should clea…
- CVE-2023-53197MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: uhci: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. …
- CVE-2023-53196MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak Function dwc3_qcom_probe() allocates memory for resource structure which is pointed by parent_res pointer. This memory is not …
- CVE-2023-53195MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: minimal: fix potential memory leak in mlxsw_m_linecards_init The line cards array is not freed in the error path of mlxsw_m_linecards_init(), which can lead to a …
- CVE-2023-53190MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: Fix memory leaks in error path The memory allocated by vxlan_vnigroup_init() is not freed in the error path, leading to memory leaks [1]. Fix by calling vxlan_vni…
- CVE-2023-53174MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs be freed. As the comment of device_a…
- CVE-2023-53173MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: pcn_uart: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over ti…
- CVE-2022-50251MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mmc: vub300: fix return value check of mmc_add_host() mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value, the memory that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() will …
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