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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().

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-09-15 | Published 2025-09-15 | Updated 2025-09-15 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 (git) before 63956ad27a6882f01fea7c69e17823090f4c7b3f
affected

ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 (git) before 06c5340858011aa1195aec43a776e3185fbf7f56
affected

ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 (git) before e12fac07f61caac9c5b186d827658b3470787619
affected

ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 (git) before aa9a76d5ffdecd3b52ac333eb89361b0c9fe04e8
affected

ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 (git) before 6bc7f4c8c27d526f968788b8a985896755b1df35
affected

ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 (git) before b191ff1f075c4875f11271cbf0093e6e044a12aa
affected

ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 (git) before 43c0e16d0c5ec59398b405f4c4aa5a076e656c3f
affected

ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3 (git) before 04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3a
affected

Default status
affected

2.6.26
affected

Any version before 2.6.26
unaffected

4.14.323 (semver)
unaffected

4.19.292 (semver)
unaffected

5.4.254 (semver)
unaffected

5.10.191 (semver)
unaffected

5.15.127 (semver)
unaffected

6.1.46 (semver)
unaffected

6.4.11 (semver)
unaffected

6.5 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/63956ad27a6882f01fea7c69e17823090f4c7b3f

git.kernel.org/...c/06c5340858011aa1195aec43a776e3185fbf7f56

git.kernel.org/...c/e12fac07f61caac9c5b186d827658b3470787619

git.kernel.org/...c/aa9a76d5ffdecd3b52ac333eb89361b0c9fe04e8

git.kernel.org/...c/6bc7f4c8c27d526f968788b8a985896755b1df35

git.kernel.org/...c/b191ff1f075c4875f11271cbf0093e6e044a12aa

git.kernel.org/...c/43c0e16d0c5ec59398b405f4c4aa5a076e656c3f

git.kernel.org/...c/04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3a

cve.org (CVE-2023-53174)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-53174)

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