CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53030

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a memory leak was found in the i3c driver for Renesas platforms. The xfer structure allocated by renesas_i3c_alloc_xfer() was never freed in the renesas_i3c_i3c_xfers() function.

Risk Assessment

The memory leak can gradually exhaust available system memory, potentially leading to a denial of service (DoS) on systems using this driver.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix, which uses the __free(kfree) attribute to automatically free the memory.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i3c: master: renesas: Fix memory leak in renesas_i3c_i3c_xfers() The xfer structure allocated by renesas_i3c_alloc_xfer() was never freed in the renesas_i3c_i3c_xfers() function. Use the __free(kfree) cleanup attribute to automatically free the memory when the variable goes out of scope.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS