CVE-2023-52902: 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: nommu: fix memory leak in do_mmap() error path The preallocation of the maple tree nodes may leak if the error path to "error_just_free" is taken. Fix this by moving the freeing of the maple tree nodes to a shared location for all error paths.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.1, before 6.1.8 (fixed in 6.1.8); version 6.2 only

Published 2024-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.