CVE-2023-53096: 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: interconnect: fix mem leak when freeing nodes The node link array is allocated when adding links to a node but is not deallocated when nodes are destroyed.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.1, before 5.4.238 (fixed in 5.4.238); from 5.5, before 5.10.176 (fixed in 5.10.176); from 5.11, before 5.15.104 (fixed in 5.15.104); from 5.16, before 6.1.21 (fixed in 6.1.21); from 6.2, before 6.2.8 (fixed in 6.2.8); version 6.3 only

Published 2025-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.