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CVE-2023-53436

kernel: scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · September 18, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

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().

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified