CVE-2023-53696Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux

Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vector
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 22

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix memory leak in qla2x00_probe_one() There is a memory leak reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffffc900003f0000 (size 12288): comm "modprobe", pid 19117, jiffies 4299751452 (age 42490.264s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] __vmalloc_node_range+0xe56/0x1110 [] __vma

Affected Packages4 packages

Linuxlinux/linux_kernel4.16.05.15.107+2
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.25-1+2
CVEListV5linux/linuxa4239945b8ad112fb914d0605c8f6c5fd3330f61ae73c4dd48f2c79d515d509a0cbe9efb0a197f44+4
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.25-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
CVE-2023-53696: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix memory leak in qla2x00_probe_one() There is a memory leak repor2025-10-22
GHSA
GHSA-hh3x-pv67-6v62: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix memory leak in qla2x00_probe_one() There is a memory leak rep2025-10-22
OSV
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix memory leak in qla2x00_probe_one()2025-10-22

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix memory leak in qla2x00_probe_one()2025-10-22
Debian
CVE-2023-53696: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2x...2023