# 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-2023-53518"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:46:05.446Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:29.791Z"
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-2023-53518"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53518.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53518"
title: "PM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release()\n\nsrcu_init_notifier_head() allocates resources that need to be released\nwith a srcu_cleanup_notifier_head() call.\n\nReported by kmemleak."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7462483446cb9986568ad7adae746ce5f18d2968"},{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64e6e0dc2d578c0a9e31cb4edd719f0a3ed98f6d"},{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29811f4b8255d4238cf326f3bb7129784766beab"},{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab192e5e5d3b48415909a8408acfd007a607bcc0"},{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"111bafa210ae546bee7644be730c42df9c35b66e"},{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8918025feb2f5f7c73f2495c158f22997e25cb02"},{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1640e9c72173911ad0fddb05012c01eafe082c4e"},{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3354c401c68d70567d1ef25d12f4e22a7813a3c6"},{"version":"0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5693d077595de721f9ddbf9d37f40e5409707dfe"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"version":"4.14.326","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.295","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.257","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.195","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.132","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"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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