CVE-2023-54266 json
media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()
published 2025-12-30 10 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-60375
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()
'read' is freed when it is known to be NULL, but not when a read error occurs.
Revert the logic to avoid a small leak, should a m920x_read() call fail.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 4.5, 4.10, 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 5.17, 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3, 6.6
- linux Debian 12 6.1.55-1
- linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.5.3-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54266
- linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-169.187
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-94.104
- linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1116.126
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1053.58
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1120.129
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1051.59
- linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1050.55
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1063.68
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54266
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-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- 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
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1SUSE-SU-2026:20498-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/809623fedc31f4e74039d93bb75a8993635d7534 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0178e938f110cdf6937f26975c0c951dbb1d9db commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/75d6ef197c488cd852493b4a419274e3489da79d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d13a84874a2e0236c9325b3adc8e126d0888ad6b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ca7cd02114ac8caa6b0a64734b9af6be1559353 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b6e20ef0585a467c24c7e4fde28518e5b33225a commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4feed3dfca722c6d74865a37cab853c58e6aa190 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cc9f11aeae2887a4db25c27323fc445f4b49e86 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea9ef6c2e001c5dc94bee35ebd1c8a98621cf7b8 commit
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-2023-54266 updated
kernel: media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()
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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 kernelnot 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
0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/809623fedc31f4e74039d93bb75a8993635d7534
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/c0178e938f110cdf6937f26975c0c951dbb1d9db
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/75d6ef197c488cd852493b4a419274e3489da79d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d13a84874a2e0236c9325b3adc8e126d0888ad6b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/7ca7cd02114ac8caa6b0a64734b9af6be1559353
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/2b6e20ef0585a467c24c7e4fde28518e5b33225a
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4feed3dfca722c6d74865a37cab853c58e6aa190
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/2cc9f11aeae2887a4db25c27323fc445f4b49e86
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ea9ef6c2e001c5dc94bee35ebd1c8a98621cf7b8
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2023-54266
- NVD CVE-2023-54266
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