CVE-2023-52643: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: core: fix memleak in iio_device_register_sysfs When iio_device_register_sysfs_group() fails, we should free iio_dev_opaque->chan_attr_group.attrs to prevent potential memleak.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 5.15.149 (fixed in 5.15.149); from 5.16, before 6.1.79 (fixed in 6.1.79); from 6.2, before 6.6.18 (fixed in 6.6.18); from 6.7, before 6.7.6 (fixed in 6.7.6); version 6.8 only

Published 2024-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.