CVE-2023-53078

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate() If alua_rtpg_queue() failed from alua_activate(), then 'qdata' is not freed, which will cause following memleak: unreferenced object 0xffff88810b2c6980 (size 32): comm "kworker/u16:2", pid 635322, jiffies 4355801099 (age 1216426.076s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 40 39 24 c1 ff ff ff ff 00 f8 ea 0a 81 88 ff ff @9$............. backtrace: [<0000000098f3a26d>] alua_activate+0xb0/0x320 [<000000003b529641>] scsi_dh_activate+0xb2/0x140 [<000000007b296db3>] activate_path_work+0xc6/0xe0 [dm_multipath] [<000000007adc9ace>] process_one_work+0x3c5/0x730 [<00000000c457a985>] worker_thread+0x93/0x650 [<00000000cb80e628>] kthread+0x1ba/0x210 [<00000000a1e61077>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 Fix the problem by freeing 'qdata' in error path.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMay 2, 2025
First seenMay 2, 2025
Weakness typeCWE-401CWE-401

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel4.9.21 ≤ v < 4.10, 4.10.9 ≤ v < 4.11, 4.11.1 ≤ v < 4.14.312, 4.15 ≤ v < 4.19.280, 4.20 ≤ v < 5.4.240, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.177, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.105, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.22, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.2.9, 4.11, 6.34.10, 4.11, 4.14.312, 4.19.280, 5.4.240, 5.10.177, 5.15.105, 6.1.22, 6.2.9

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