CVE-2023-53174 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 15

Description

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().

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel2.6.26 — 4.14.323+7
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.191-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 — 63956ad27a6882f01fea7c69e17823090f4c7b3f+8
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2023-53174: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails If device_add() returns↗2025-09-15
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GHSA
GHSA-23fg-w3cv-jf6w: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails If device_add() retur↗2025-09-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails↗2025-09-15
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Debian
CVE-2023-53174: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core:...↗2023
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