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CVE-2023-53436

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

Description (CNA)

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().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa before 789275f7c0544374d40bc8d9c81f96751a41df45; affected c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa before f830968d464f55e11bc9260a132fc77daa266aa3; affected c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa before cea09922f5f75652d55b481ee34011fc7f19868b; affected c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa before 58889d5ad74cbc1c9595db74e13522b58b69b0ec; affected c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa before 461f8ac666fa232afee5ed6420099913ec4e4ba2; affected c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa before 7723a5d5d187626c4c640842e522cf4e9e39492e; affected c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa before ed0acb1ee2e9322b96611635a9ca9303d15ac76c; affected c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa before 41320b18a0e0dfb236dba4edb9be12dba1878156
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.2; unaffected 0 before 4.2; unaffected 4.14.323 through 4.14.*; unaffected 4.19.292 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.254 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.191 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.127 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.46 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.4.11 through 6.4.*; unaffected 6.5 through *

CWE

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