# 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-2023-54017"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:48.364Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:53:40.938Z"
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-2023-54017"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54017.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54017"
title: "powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()\n\nIf device_register() returns error in ibmebus_bus_init(), name of kobject\nwhich is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.\n\nAs comment of device_add() says, it should call put_device() to drop\nthe reference count that was set in device_initialize() when it fails,\nso the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup()."
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