CVE-2023-53174: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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().

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.26, before 4.14.323 (fixed in 4.14.323); from 4.15, before 4.19.292 (fixed in 4.19.292); from 4.20, before 5.4.254 (fixed in 5.4.254); from 5.5, before 5.10.191 (fixed in 5.10.191); from 5.11, before 5.15.127 (fixed in 5.15.127); from 5.16, before 6.1.46 (fixed in 6.1.46); …

Published 2025-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.