MediumFix available
scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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().
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.14.323, 4.19.292, 5.10.191, 5.15.127, 5.4.254, 6.1.46, 6.4.11
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-53436
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 21:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 18 Sept 2025, 16:04 UTC
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().
osv:CVE-2023-53436
Kernel
Fixed versions: 4.14.323, 4.19.292, 5.4.254, 5.10.191, 5.15.127, 6.1.46, 6.4.11
Complete source record
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