CVE-2023-53211: 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: driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld before return false struct acpi_pld_info *pld should be freed before the return of allocation failure, to prevent memory leak, add the ACPI_FREE() to fix it.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.19, before 6.1.16 (fixed in 6.1.16); from 6.2, before 6.2.3 (fixed in 6.2.3)

Published 2025-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.