vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-53611
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | Oct 4, 2025 | Oct 15, 2025 | Oct 23, 2025 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 4, 2025
Added
Oct 15, 2025
Modified
Oct 23, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmi_si: fix a memleak in try_smi_init()
Kmemleak reported the following leak info in try_smi_init():
unreferenced object 0xffff00018ecf9400 (size 1024):
comm "modprobe", pid 2707763, jiffies 4300851415 (age 773.308s)
backtrace:
[<000000004ca5b312>] __kmalloc+0x4b8/0x7b0
[<00000000953b1072>] try_smi_init+0x148/0x5dc [ipmi_si]
[<000000006460d325>] 0xffff800081b10148
[<0000000039206ea5>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2a4
[<00000000601399ce>] do_init_module+0x50/0x300
[<000000003c12ba3c>] load_module+0x7a8/0x9e0
[<00000000c246fffe>] __se_sys_init_module+0x104/0x180
[<00000000eea99093>] __arm64_sys_init_module+0x24/0x30
[<0000000021b1ef87>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x94/0x250
[<0000000070f4f8b7>] do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe0
[<000000005a05337f>] el0_svc+0x24/0x3c
[<000000005eb248d6>] el0_sync_handler+0x160/0x164
[<0000000030a59039>] el0_sync+0x160/0x180
The problem was that when an error occurred before handlers registration
and after allocating `new_smi->si_sm`, the variable wouldn't be freed in
the error handling afterwards since `shutdown_smi()` hadn't been
registered yet. Fix it by adding a `kfree()` in the error handling path
in `try_smi_init()`.
ipmi_si: fix a memleak in try_smi_init()
Kmemleak reported the following leak info in try_smi_init():
unreferenced object 0xffff00018ecf9400 (size 1024):
comm "modprobe", pid 2707763, jiffies 4300851415 (age 773.308s)
backtrace:
[<000000004ca5b312>] __kmalloc+0x4b8/0x7b0
[<00000000953b1072>] try_smi_init+0x148/0x5dc [ipmi_si]
[<000000006460d325>] 0xffff800081b10148
[<0000000039206ea5>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2a4
[<00000000601399ce>] do_init_module+0x50/0x300
[<000000003c12ba3c>] load_module+0x7a8/0x9e0
[<00000000c246fffe>] __se_sys_init_module+0x104/0x180
[<00000000eea99093>] __arm64_sys_init_module+0x24/0x30
[<0000000021b1ef87>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x94/0x250
[<0000000070f4f8b7>] do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe0
[<000000005a05337f>] el0_svc+0x24/0x3c
[<000000005eb248d6>] el0_sync_handler+0x160/0x164
[<0000000030a59039>] el0_sync+0x160/0x180
The problem was that when an error occurred before handlers registration
and after allocating `new_smi->si_sm`, the variable wouldn't be freed in
the error handling afterwards since `shutdown_smi()` hadn't been
registered yet. Fix it by adding a `kfree()` in the error handling path
in `try_smi_init()`.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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