CVE-2023-53567: 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: spi: qup: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path Returning early in a platform driver's remove callback is wrong. In this case the dma resources are not released in the error path. this is never retried later and so this is a permanent leak. To fix this, only skip hardware disabling if waking the device fails.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.15, before 4.19.283 (fixed in 4.19.283); from 4.20, before 5.4.243 (fixed in 5.4.243); from 5.5, before 5.10.180 (fixed in 5.10.180); from 5.11, before 5.15.111 (fixed in 5.15.111); from 5.16, before 6.1.28 (fixed in 6.1.28); from 6.2, before 6.2.15 (fixed in 6.2.15); …

Published 2025-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.