# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53349"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-17T14:56:40.510Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:43:13.660Z"
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-2023-53349"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53349.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53349"
title: "media: ov2740: Fix memleak in ov2740_init_controls()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: ov2740: Fix memleak in ov2740_init_controls()\n\nThere is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/ov2740.c with bpf mock\ndevice:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881090e19e0 (size 16):\n  comm \"51-i2c-ov2740\", pid 278, jiffies 4294781584 (age 23.613s)\n  hex dump (first 16 bytes):\n    00 f3 7c 0b 81 88 ff ff 80 75 6a 09 81 88 ff ff  ..|......uj.....\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000004e9fad8f\u003e] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0\n    [\u003c0000000039c802f4\u003e] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180\n    [\u003c000000009b8b5c63\u003e] v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x11d/0x180\n[videodev]\n    [\u003c0000000038644056\u003e] ov2740_probe+0x37d/0x84f [ov2740]\n    [\u003c0000000092489f59\u003e] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680\n    [\u003c000000001038babe\u003e] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0\n    [\u003c0000000098c7af1c\u003e] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170\n    [\u003c00000000e1b3dc24\u003e] device_driver_attach+0x34/0x80\n    [\u003c000000005a04a34d\u003e] bind_store+0x10b/0x1a0\n    [\u003c00000000ce25d4f2\u003e] drv_attr_store+0x49/0x70\n    [\u003c000000007d9f4e9a\u003e] sysfs_kf_write+0x8c/0xb0\n    [\u003c00000000be6cff0f\u003e] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x216/0x2e0\n    [\u003c0000000031ddb40a\u003e] vfs_write+0x658/0x810\n    [\u003c0000000041beecdd\u003e] ksys_write+0xd6/0x1b0\n    [\u003c0000000023755840\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90\n    [\u003c00000000b2cc2da2\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nov2740_init_controls() won't clean all the allocated resources in fail\npath, which may causes the memleaks. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() to\nprevent memleak."
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