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CVE-2023-54208 json

media: ov5675: Fix memleak in ov5675_init_controls()

published 2025-12-30 10 mo ago modified 2026-10-28 11 d ago also EUVD-2023-60433

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not scored
cisa kev
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not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: ov5675: Fix memleak in ov5675_init_controls()

There is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/ov5675.c with bpf mock device:

AssertionError: unreferenced object 0xffff888107362160 (size 16): comm "python3", pid 277, jiffies 4294832798 (age 20.722s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000abe7d67c>] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0 [<000000008a725aac>] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180 [<000000009a53cd11>] v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x11d/0x180 [videodev] [<0000000055b46db0>] ov5675_probe+0x38b/0x897 [ov5675] [<00000000153d886c>] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680 [<000000004afb7e8f>] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0 [<00000000ff2f18e4>] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170 [<000000000a001029>] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120 [<00000000e39743c7>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150 [<00000000d32fd070>] bus_for_each_drv+0x114/0x180 [<000000009083ac41>] __device_attach+0x1e5/0x2d0 [<0000000015b4a830>] bus_probe_device+0x126/0x140 [<000000007813deaf>] device_add+0x810/0x1130 [<000000007becb867>] i2c_new_client_device+0x386/0x540 [<000000007f9cf4b4>] of_i2c_register_device+0xf1/0x110 [<00000000ebfdd032>] of_i2c_notify+0xfc/0x1f0

ov5675_init_controls() won't clean all the allocated resources in fail path, which may causes the memleaks. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() to prevent memleak.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3, 6.3
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.1.20-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54208

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-152.169
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-75.82
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1104.112
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1038.43
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1107.116
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1036.44
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1036.41
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1051.56

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54208

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
  • kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-54208 updated

kernel: media: ov5675: Fix memleak in ov5675_init_controls()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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