# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53298"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:11:30.044Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:42:14.483Z"
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-2023-53298"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53298.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53298"
title: "nfc: fix memory leak of se_io context in nfc_genl_se_io"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: fix memory leak of se_io context in nfc_genl_se_io\n\nThe callback context for sending/receiving APDUs to/from the selected\nsecure element is allocated inside nfc_genl_se_io and supposed to be\neventually freed in se_io_cb callback function. However, there are several\nerror paths where the bwi_timer is not charged to call se_io_cb later, and\nthe cb_context is leaked.\n\nThe patch proposes to free the cb_context explicitly on those error paths.\n\nAt the moment we can't simply check 'dev-\u003eops-\u003ese_io()' return value as it\nmay be negative in both cases: when the timer was charged and was not."
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