CVE-2023-54266: media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54266DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54266
Published 30-12-2025Last modified 23-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-54266 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.23%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 13 · Related 13
SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1SUSE-SU-2026:0316-1

Timeline

  1. 30-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer() 'read' is freed when it is known to be NULL, but not when a read error occurs. Revert the logic to avoid a small leak, should a m920x_read() call fail.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.23%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

14%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.23% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu123 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-169.187 | < 5.15.0-94.104
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-1116.126 | < 5.15.0-1053.58
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.55-1 | < 6.5.3-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 82ce3084892c0c0e006ec61f6144f2cc4e5ece88, < 809623fedc31f4e74039d93bb75a8993635d7534 | ≥ 7dca4428d7eb33c89979e620228fe557593fde66, < c0178e938f110cdf6937f26975c0c951dbb1d9db | ≥ fe791612afabaeee9b911bd7b955985bcf5ff314, < 75d6ef197c488cd852493b4a419274e3489da79d | ≥ 830e5d1b4344c2575020ee4bdf63fb48e2b56ce3, < d13a84874a2e0236c9325b3adc8e126d0888ad6b | ≥ 0c044e39d52abfbb4cb43dbc5a09c1dc1ed24648, < 7ca7cd02114ac8caa6b0a64734b9af6be1559353 | ≥ a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27, < 2b6e20ef0585a467c24c7e4fde28518e5b33225a | ≥ a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27, < 4feed3dfca722c6d74865a37cab853c58e6aa190 | ≥ a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27, < 2cc9f11aeae2887a4db25c27323fc445f4b49e86 | ≥ a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27, < ea9ef6c2e001c5dc94bee35ebd1c8a98621cf7b8 | 08cb4f0da9926277101d18d817048e1328ac2563 | 273cac7a89712ba6b898214af150b71dc33abe0c | b7e221dc8f23727e00a7fb6709b3318547a7c4d8 | ≥ 4.14.263, < 4.14.326 | ≥ 4.19.226, < 4.19.295 | ≥ 5.4.174, < 5.4.257 | ≥ 5.10.94, < 5.10.195 | ≥ 5.15.17, < 5.15.132 | ≥ 4.4.300, < 4.5 | ≥ 4.9.298, < 4.10 | ≥ 5.16.3, < 5.17 | 5.17

3 vendors · 125 products

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