# 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-2023-53346"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-17T14:56:38.400Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:43:10.233Z"
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-2023-53346"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53346.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53346"
title: "kernel/fail_function: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkernel/fail_function: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()\n\nWhen calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,\notherwise the memory will leak over time.  To make things simpler, just\ncall debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic\nat once."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4b1a29a7f5425d32640b34b8a755f34e02f64d0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6d3aee1c66358471275df9dddd480010f061b0e"},{"version":"4b1a29a7f5425d32640b34b8a755f34e02f64d0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd9981a11d74ff2eb253bb5c459876f8bd3c6c36"},{"version":"4b1a29a7f5425d32640b34b8a755f34e02f64d0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb99db06b8b6ce9351633fc61bec9919d8f6f52b"},{"version":"4b1a29a7f5425d32640b34b8a755f34e02f64d0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29d53c4c5a6f6d2b93aaac95b65cb4c907faf2ff"},{"version":"4b1a29a7f5425d32640b34b8a755f34e02f64d0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94f68f3e059c478e240f65fcb64746fe371295df"},{"version":"4b1a29a7f5425d32640b34b8a755f34e02f64d0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bb3669f576559db273efe49e0e69f82450efbca"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"5.4.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.173","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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