CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53121

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.11%

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel amd-pstate driver, the amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() function has a memory leak. On failure to set epp, the cpudata object is not freed.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience kernel memory exhaustion, potentially leading to system instability, especially with frequent CPU initialization attempts.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that ensures the cpudata object is freed before returning an error from amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: amd-pstate: Fix memory leak in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() On failure to set the epp, the function amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() returns with an error code without freeing the cpudata object that was allocated at the beginning of the function. Ensure that the cpudata object is freed before returning from the function. This memory leak was discovered by Claude Opus 4.6 with the aid of Chris Mason's AI review-prompts (https://github.com/masoncl/review-prompts/tree/main/kernel).

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