# 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-2023-53746"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T01:19:05.204Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:50:54.095Z"
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-2023-53746"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53746.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53746"
title: "s390/vfio-ap: fix memory leak in vfio_ap device driver"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ns390/vfio-ap: fix memory leak in vfio_ap device driver\n\nThe device release callback function invoked to release the matrix device\nuses the dev_get_drvdata(device *dev) function to retrieve the\npointer to the vfio_matrix_dev object in order to free its storage. The\nproblem is, this object is not stored as drvdata with the device; since the\nkfree function will accept a NULL pointer, the memory for the\nvfio_matrix_dev object is never freed.\n\nSince the device being released is contained within the vfio_matrix_dev\nobject, the container_of macro will be used to retrieve its pointer."
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