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CVE-2023-54221

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-54221 is a memory leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's clock driver for i.MX93 systems. Specifically, the 'imx93_clocks_probe' function failed to properly unregister hardware resources and free allocated memory upon error, leading to resource exhaustion. The vulnerability has a low FAUCET Risk Score of 7/100 and an EPSS score indicating very low exploitability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
LinuxLinux
5.18CNA affecteddefault affected
LinuxLinux
>= 24defbe194b650218680fcd9dec8cd103537b531, < 280a5ff665e12d1e0c54c20cedc9c5008aa686a5, >= 24defbe194b650218680fcd9dec8cd103537b531, < d17c16a2b2a6589c45b0bfb1b9914da80b72d89e, >= 24defbe194b650218680fcd9dec8cd103537b531, < e02ba11b457647050cb16e7cad16cec3c252fade, >= 24defbe194b650218680fcd9dec8cd103537b531, < fac9c624138c4bc021d7a8ee3b974c9e10926d92CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS data has not been published for this CVE.

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
6.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15

Social Chatter

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-54221Low

kernel: clk: imx93: fix memory leak and missing unwind goto in imx93_clocks_probe

Dec 30, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/280a5ff665e12d1e0c54c20cedc9c5008aa686a5
git.kernel.org / stable/c/d17c16a2b2a6589c45b0bfb1b9914da80b72d89e
git.kernel.org / stable/c/e02ba11b457647050cb16e7cad16cec3c252fade
git.kernel.org / stable/c/fac9c624138c4bc021d7a8ee3b974c9e10926d92