CVE-2023-53436

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxc8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa < 789275f7c0544374d40bc8d9c81f96751a41df45affected
LinuxLinuxc8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa < f830968d464f55e11bc9260a132fc77daa266aa3affected
LinuxLinuxc8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa < cea09922f5f75652d55b481ee34011fc7f19868baffected
LinuxLinuxc8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa < 58889d5ad74cbc1c9595db74e13522b58b69b0ecaffected
LinuxLinuxc8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa < 461f8ac666fa232afee5ed6420099913ec4e4ba2affected
LinuxLinuxc8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa < 7723a5d5d187626c4c640842e522cf4e9e39492eaffected
LinuxLinuxc8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa < ed0acb1ee2e9322b96611635a9ca9303d15ac76caffected
LinuxLinuxc8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa < 41320b18a0e0dfb236dba4edb9be12dba1878156affected
LinuxLinux4.2affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.2unaffected
LinuxLinux4.14.323 <= 4.14.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.292 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.254 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.191 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.127 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.46 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.4.11 <= 6.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.5 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References