{"id":"CVE-2023-54115","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"pcmcia: rsrc_nonstatic: Fix memory leak in nonstatic_release_resource_db()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npcmcia: rsrc_nonstatic: Fix memory leak in nonstatic_release_resource_db()\n\nWhen nonstatic_release_resource_db() frees all resources associated\nwith an PCMCIA socket, it forgets to free socket_data too, causing\na memory leak observable with kmemleak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xc28d1000 (size 64):\n  comm \"systemd-udevd\", pid 297, jiffies 4294898478 (age 194.484s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 85 0e c3 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 0c 10 8d c2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [<ffda4245>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2d7/0x4a0\n    [<7e51f0c8>] kmalloc_trace+0x31/0xa4\n    [<d52b4ca0>] nonstatic_init+0x24/0x1a4 [pcmcia_rsrc]\n    [<a2f13e08>] pcmcia_register_socket+0x200/0x35c [pcmcia_core]\n    [<a728be1b>] yenta_probe+0x4d8/0xa70 [yenta_socket]\n    [<c48fac39>] pci_device_probe+0x99/0x194\n    [<84b7c690>] really_probe+0x181/0x45c\n    [<8060fe6e>] __driver_probe_device+0x75/0x1f4\n    [<b9b76f43>] driver_probe_device+0x28/0xac\n    [<648b766f>] __driver_attach+0xeb/0x1e4\n    [<6e9659eb>] bus_for_each_dev+0x61/0xb4\n    [<25a669f3>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x28\n    [<d8671d6b>] bus_add_driver+0x102/0x20c\n    [<df0d323c>] driver_register+0x5b/0x120\n    [<942cd8a4>] __pci_register_driver+0x44/0x4c\n    [<e536027e>] __UNIQUE_ID___addressable_cleanup_module188+0x1c/0xfffff000 [iTCO_vendor_support]\n\nFix this by freeing socket_data too.\n\nTested on a Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi by manually binding/unbinding\nthe yenta_cardbus driver (yenta_socket).","publishedAt":"2025-12-24T13:06:36.892Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-11T19:55:46.032Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux 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