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().

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Linux
  • Linux Kernel

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References
Link Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41320b18a0e0dfb236dba4edb9be12dba1878156 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/461f8ac666fa232afee5ed6420099913ec4e4ba2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58889d5ad74cbc1c9595db74e13522b58b69b0ec cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7723a5d5d187626c4c640842e522cf4e9e39492e cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/789275f7c0544374d40bc8d9c81f96751a41df45 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea09922f5f75652d55b481ee34011fc7f19868b cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed0acb1ee2e9322b96611635a9ca9303d15ac76c cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f830968d464f55e11bc9260a132fc77daa266aa3 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091858-CVE-2023-53436-d294@gregkh/T cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53436 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53436 cve-icon
History

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

threat_severity

Moderate

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Description 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().
Title scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
References
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2025-09-18T16:04:15.138Z

Updated: 2025-09-18T16:04:15.138Z

Reserved: 2025-09-17T14:54:09.751Z

Link: CVE-2023-53436

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-09-18T16:15:47.737

Modified: 2025-09-18T16:15:47.737

Link: CVE-2023-53436

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-09-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-53436 - Bugzilla