# 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-2023-54169"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:08:44.089Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:56:47.153Z"
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-2023-54169"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54169.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54169"
title: "net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open\n\nWhen kvzalloc_node or kvzalloc failed in mlx5e_ptp_open, the memory\npointed by \"c\" or \"cparams\" is not freed, which can lead to a memory\nleak. Fix by freeing the array in the error path."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4892e1e548b5bd6524c1c89df06e4849df26fc20"},{"version":"145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83a8f7337a14cdb215c76a8f4cf3f3be8b59177d"},{"version":"145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7035e3ae600c4e9cb3dc220c24dd77112ddff8b1"},{"version":"145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d543b649ffe58a0cb4b6948b3305069c5980a1fa"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.5","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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