CVE-2023-53696 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
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
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa4239945b8ad112fb914d0605c8f6c5fd3330f61 — ae73c4dd48f2c79d515d509a0cbe9efb0a197f44+4
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
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 repor↗2025-10-22
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 rep↗2025-10-22