# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53693"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:35.280Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:50:01.014Z"
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-2023-53693"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53693.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53693"
title: "USB: gadget: Fix the memory leak in raw_gadget driver"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: gadget: Fix the memory leak in raw_gadget driver\n\nCurrently, increasing raw_dev-\u003ecount happens before invoke the\nraw_queue_event(), if the raw_queue_event() return error, invoke\nraw_release() will not trigger the dev_free() to be called.\n\n[  268.905865][ T5067] raw-gadget.0 gadget.0: failed to queue event\n[  268.912053][ T5067] udc dummy_udc.0: failed to start USB Raw Gadget: -12\n[  268.918885][ T5067] raw-gadget.0: probe of gadget.0 failed with error -12\n[  268.925956][ T5067] UDC core: USB Raw Gadget: couldn't find an available UDC or it's busy\n[  268.934657][ T5067] misc raw-gadget: fail, usb_gadget_register_driver returned -16\n\nBUG: memory leak\n\n[\u003cffffffff8154bf94\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076\n[\u003cffffffff8347eb55\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]\n[\u003cffffffff8347eb55\u003e] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:703 [inline]\n[\u003cffffffff8347eb55\u003e] dev_new drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:191 [inline]\n[\u003cffffffff8347eb55\u003e] raw_open+0x45/0x110 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:385\n[\u003cffffffff827d1d09\u003e] misc_open+0x1a9/0x1f0 drivers/char/misc.c:165\n\n[\u003cffffffff8154bf94\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076\n[\u003cffffffff8347cd2f\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]\n[\u003cffffffff8347cd2f\u003e] raw_ioctl_init+0xdf/0x410 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:460\n[\u003cffffffff8347dfe9\u003e] raw_ioctl+0x5f9/0x1120 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:1250\n[\u003cffffffff81685173\u003e] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n\n[\u003cffffffff8154bf94\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076\n[\u003cffffffff833ecc6a\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]\n[\u003cffffffff833ecc6a\u003e] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:703 [inline]\n[\u003cffffffff833ecc6a\u003e] dummy_alloc_request+0x5a/0xe0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:665\n[\u003cffffffff833e9132\u003e] usb_ep_alloc_request+0x22/0xd0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:196\n[\u003cffffffff8347f13d\u003e] gadget_bind+0x6d/0x370 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:292\n\nThis commit therefore invoke kref_get() under the condition that\nraw_queue_event() return success."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f2c2e717642c66f7fe7e5dd69b2e8ff5849f4d10","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68e6287ac61dc22513cd39f02b9ac1fef28513e4"},{"version":"f2c2e717642c66f7fe7e5dd69b2e8ff5849f4d10","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f7a2b567197798da7bfa2252f4485c0ca6c6266"},{"version":"f2c2e717642c66f7fe7e5dd69b2e8ff5849f4d10","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de77000c1923d7942f9b4f08447c8feeae1c0f33"},{"version":"f2c2e717642c66f7fe7e5dd69b2e8ff5849f4d10","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9934e5d07c0dc294169a7d52f6309f35cd6d7755"},{"version":"f2c2e717642c66f7fe7e5dd69b2e8ff5849f4d10","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83e30f2bf86ef7c38fbd476ed81a88522b620628"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.43","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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