CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53078
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate()
If alua_rtpg_queue() failed from alua_activate(), then 'qdata' is not
freed, which will cause following memleak:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810b2c6980 (size 32):
comm "kworker/u16:2", pid 635322, jiffies 4355801099 (age 1216426.076s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
40 39 24 c1 ff ff ff ff 00 f8 ea 0a 81 88 ff ff @9$.............
backtrace:
[<0000000098f3a26d>] alua_activate+0xb0/0x320
[<000000003b529641>] scsi_dh_activate+0xb2/0x140
[<000000007b296db3>] activate_path_work+0xc6/0xe0 [dm_multipath]
[<000000007adc9ace>] process_one_work+0x3c5/0x730
[<00000000c457a985>] worker_thread+0x93/0x650
[<00000000cb80e628>] kthread+0x1ba/0x210
[<00000000a1e61077>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
Fix the problem by freeing 'qdata' in error path.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9.21 < 4.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10.9 < 4.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.11.1 < 4.14.312)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.280)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.240)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.177)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.105)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.22)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.9)
• linux linux kernel 4.11
• linux linux kernel 6.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d89254a4320eb7de0970c478172f764125c6355 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/123483df146492ca22b503ae6dacc2ce7c3a3974 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c55982beb80c7d3c30278fc6cfda8496a31dbe6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c4d71424df34fc23dc5336d09394ce68c849542 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9311e7a554dffd3823499e309a8b86a5cd1540e5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a13faca032acbf2699293587085293bdfaafc8ae Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c09cdf6eb815ee35e55d6c50ac7f63db58bd20b8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c110051d335ef7f62ad33474b0c23997fee5bfb5 Patch