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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-54020" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:50.583Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:31:58.250Z" 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-2023-54020" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54020.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54020" title: "dmaengine: sf-pdma: pdma_desc memory leak fix" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndmaengine: sf-pdma: pdma_desc memory leak fix\n\nCommit b2cc5c465c2c (\"dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add multithread support for a\nDMA channel\") changed sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() to unconditionally\nallocate a new sf_pdma_desc each time it is called.\n\nThe driver previously recycled descs, by checking the in_use flag, only\nallocating additional descs if the existing one was in use. This logic\nwas removed in commit b2cc5c465c2c (\"dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add multithread\nsupport for a DMA channel\"), but sf_pdma_free_desc() was not changed to\nhandle the new behaviour.\n\nAs a result, each time sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() is called, the previous\ndescriptor is leaked, over time leading to memory starvation:\n\n unreferenced object 0xffffffe008447300 (size 192):\n comm \"irq/39-mchp_dsc\", pid 343, jiffies 4294906910 (age 981.200s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 b8 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 70 08 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 ..p.............\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000064a04f4\u003e] kmemleak_alloc+0x1e/0x28\n [\u003c00000000018927a7\u003e] kmem_cache_alloc+0x11e/0x178\n [\u003c000000002aea8d16\u003e] sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy+0x40/0x112\n\nAdd the missing kfree() to sf_pdma_free_desc(), and remove the redundant\nin_use flag." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5ab2782c944e324008ef5d658f2494a9f0e3c5ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad222c9af25e3f074c180e389b3477dce42afc4f"},{"version":"b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03fece43fa109beba7cc9948c02f5e2d1205d607"},{"version":"b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8bd5040bd43f2b5ba3c898b09a3197a0c7ace126"},{"version":"b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b02e07015a5ac7bbc029da931ae17914b8ae0339"},{"version":"b9b4992f897be9b0b9e3a3b956cab6b75ccc3f11","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4c7350b1dd8a192af844de32fc99b9e34c876fda","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a93b3f1e11971a91b6441b6d47488f4492cc113f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.61","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.99"},{"version":"5.10.137","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.18.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"5.19.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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