# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53261"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:46:33.065Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:41:22.251Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53261"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53261.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53261"
title: "coresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer-\u003epointer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncoresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer-\u003epointer\n\nThere are memory leaks reported by kmemleak:\n...\nunreferenced object 0xffff00213c141000 (size 1024):\n  comm \"systemd-udevd\", pid 2123, jiffies 4294909467 (age 6062.160s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    04 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 18 10 14 3c 21 00 ff ff  ...........\u003c!...\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 10 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000004b7c9001\u003e] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2f8/0x348\n    [\u003c00000000b0fc7ceb\u003e] __kmalloc+0x58/0x108\n    [\u003c0000000064ff4695\u003e] acpi_os_allocate+0x2c/0x68\n    [\u003c000000007d57d116\u003e] acpi_ut_initialize_buffer+0x54/0xe0\n    [\u003c0000000024583908\u003e] acpi_evaluate_object+0x388/0x438\n    [\u003c0000000017b2e72b\u003e] acpi_evaluate_object_typed+0xe8/0x240\n    [\u003c000000005df0eac2\u003e] coresight_get_platform_data+0x1b4/0x988 [coresight]\n...\n\nThe ACPI buffer memory (buf.pointer) should be freed. But the buffer\nis also used after returning from acpi_get_dsd_graph().\nMove the temporary variables buf to acpi_coresight_parse_graph(),\nand free it before the function return to prevent memory leak."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"76ffa5ab5b79c250b9744b7f8bdd835db426a1ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1b60e7c9fee34eaedf1fc4e0471f75b33f83a4a"},{"version":"76ffa5ab5b79c250b9744b7f8bdd835db426a1ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a9e02673e2550f5612099e64e8761f0c8fc0f50"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"6.5.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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