VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-53174

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.16%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-09-15
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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().

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-401

Primary references