CVE-2023-53174

CVE-2023-53174: vulnerability in Linux

scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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 products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06c5340858011aa1195aec43a776e3185fbf7f56https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43c0e16d0c5ec59398b405f4c4aa5a076e656c3fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63956ad27a6882f01fea7c69e17823090f4c7b3fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bc7f4c8c27d526f968788b8a985896755b1df35https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9a76d5ffdecd3b52ac333eb89361b0c9fe04e8https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b191ff1f075c4875f11271cbf0093e6e044a12aahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e12fac07f61caac9c5b186d827658b3470787619