TI-2023-29726 Aliases CVE-2023-53436 GHSA-vm7p-qhqq-3564

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

LOW 24CWE-401Published 2025-09-18 · Updated 2026-05-11

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-401.

Summary

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().

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00149 4th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed Linux (Linux): 4.14.323, 4.19.292, 5.4.254 +5

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

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Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Linux	Linux	4.2 and later	4.14.323, 4.19.292, 5.4.254, 5.10.191, 5.15.127, 6.1.46, 6.4.11, 6.5	Patch available	CNA

Linux VendorLinux Affected 4.2 and later Fixed in 4.14.323, 4.19.292, 5.4.254, 5.10.191, 5.15.127, 6.1.46, 6.4.11, 6.5 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 6

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.2 to before 4.14.323; 4.15 to before 4.19.292; 4.20 to before 5.4.254; 5.5 to before 5.10.191; 5.11 to before 5.15.127; 5.16 to before 6.1.46; 6.2 to before 6.4.11	Vulnerable	Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc1::::::	6.5 rc1	Vulnerable	Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc2::::::	6.5 rc2	Vulnerable	Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc3::::::	6.5 rc3	Vulnerable	Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc4::::::	6.5 rc4	Vulnerable	Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc5::::::	6.5 rc5	Vulnerable	Linux

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 4.2 to before 4.14.323; 4.15 to before 4.19.292; 4.20 to before 5.4.254; 5.5 to before 5.10.191; 5.11 to before 5.15.127; 5.16 to before 6.1.46; 6.2 to before 6.4.11 Vulnerable ·Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.5 rc1 Vulnerable ·Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.5 rc2 Vulnerable ·Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.5 rc3 Vulnerable ·Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.5 rc4 Vulnerable ·Linux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.5 rc5 Vulnerable ·Linux

Remediation

Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 4.14.323, 4.19.292, 5.4.254, 5.10.191, 5.15.127, 6.1.46, 6.4.11, 6.5

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 5 products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-53436
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vm7p-qhqq-3564

References

Patch 8

TI-2025-26358 tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2026-38352 netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2013-05264 The (1) get_user and (2) put_user API functions in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 on the… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2022-00125 Integer overflow in kernel KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
TI-2013-01864 The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
TI-2021-05514 Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3

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Sources

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