CVE-2023-53300: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: hi846: Fix memleak in hi846_init_controls() hi846_init_controls doesn't clean the allocated ctrl_hdlr in case there is a failure, which causes memleak. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free to free the resource properly.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.16, before 6.1.28 (fixed in 6.1.28); from 6.2, before 6.2.15 (fixed in 6.2.15); from 6.3, before 6.3.2 (fixed in 6.3.2)

Published 2025-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.