CVE-2023-53174

scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails

published September 15, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:04Z
    scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
    cvelistv5