CVE-2023-53436 (GCVE-0-2023-53436)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:23
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Title
scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs be freed. As the comment of device_add() says, put_device() should be used to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa , < 789275f7c0544374d40bc8d9c81f96751a41df45 (git)
Affected: c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa , < f830968d464f55e11bc9260a132fc77daa266aa3 (git)
Affected: c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa , < cea09922f5f75652d55b481ee34011fc7f19868b (git)
Affected: c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa , < 58889d5ad74cbc1c9595db74e13522b58b69b0ec (git)
Affected: c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa , < 461f8ac666fa232afee5ed6420099913ec4e4ba2 (git)
Affected: c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa , < 7723a5d5d187626c4c640842e522cf4e9e39492e (git)
Affected: c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa , < ed0acb1ee2e9322b96611635a9ca9303d15ac76c (git)
Affected: c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa , < 41320b18a0e0dfb236dba4edb9be12dba1878156 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.323 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.292 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.254 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.191 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.127 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.46 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.11 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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