CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2023-53174
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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().
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-401
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06c5340858011aa1195aec43a776e3185fbf7f56
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43c0e16d0c5ec59398b405f4c4aa5a076e656c3f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63956ad27a6882f01fea7c69e17823090f4c7b3f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bc7f4c8c27d526f968788b8a985896755b1df35