CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53174
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- 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: core: 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 decrease the reference count in the error path. So fix this by calling
put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.26 < 4.14.323)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.292)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.254)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.191)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.127)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.46)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.11)
• linux linux kernel 6.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06c5340858011aa1195aec43a776e3185fbf7f56 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43c0e16d0c5ec59398b405f4c4aa5a076e656c3f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63956ad27a6882f01fea7c69e17823090f4c7b3f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bc7f4c8c27d526f968788b8a985896755b1df35 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9a76d5ffdecd3b52ac333eb89361b0c9fe04e8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b191ff1f075c4875f11271cbf0093e6e044a12aa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e12fac07f61caac9c5b186d827658b3470787619 Patch