CVE-2023-53436
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 4.2-4.14.323 - Use-After-Free in SCSI SNIC Device Addition
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: snic: 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 give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0014
EPSS Percentile
3.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-401
Status
published
Products (20)
Linux/Linux
< 4.2
Linux/Linux
4.14.323 - 4.14.*
Linux/Linux
4.19.292 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux
4.2
Linux/Linux
5.10.191 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.15.127 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.4.254 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux
6.1.46 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux
6.4.11 - 6.4.*
Linux/Linux
6.5
... and 10 more
Published
Sep 18, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026