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CVE-2023-53424: clk: mediatek: fix of_iomap memory leak

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: mediatek: fix of_iomap memory leak Smatch reports: drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c:583 mtk_clk_simple_probe() warn: 'base' from of_iomap() not released on lines: 496. This problem was also found in linux-next. In mtk_clk_simple_probe(), base is not released when handling errors if clk_data is not existed, which may cause a leak. So free_base should be added here to release base.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 5.15 before 6.3.13; from 6.4 before 6.4.4 — fixed in 6.3.13, 6.4.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.3.13, 6.4.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cae6a28d8c12c597e8656962271520434c61c48
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3db7285e044144fd88a356f5b641b9cd4b231a77
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47234e19b00816a8a7b278c7173f6d4e928c43c7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/847d5dd788ce05f0aaaa36ea174f7f0b9cf86f7d

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