CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53436

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-09-18
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
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
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: 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().

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 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