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

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.

Published: 2025-12-30 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-54266 is rated Low Risk (15.7/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-54266

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-28 0.06% 0.05% -0.02%
2 2026-05-01 0.03% 0.06% +0.03%
3 2025-12-31 0.03%

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-54266

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-54266

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-54266

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2023-54266 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-54266
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54266
suse medium https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54266/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-54266 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 174, released 136, not-affected 69, needed 15, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-54266

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-54266

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2023-54266

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