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CVE-2023-53436

Published: Sep 18, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

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().

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa - < 789275f7c0544374d40bc8d9c81f96751a41df45
affected
c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa - < f830968d464f55e11bc9260a132fc77daa266aa3
affected
c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa - < cea09922f5f75652d55b481ee34011fc7f19868b
affected
c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa - < 58889d5ad74cbc1c9595db74e13522b58b69b0ec
affected
c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa - < 461f8ac666fa232afee5ed6420099913ec4e4ba2

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
4.2
unaffected
0 - < 4.2
unaffected
4.14.323 - <= 4.14.*
unaffected
4.19.292 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.254 - <= 5.4.*

+5 more versions

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