# CVE-2023-53436: scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device\_add() fails

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-09-18 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.2

## Description

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().

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/789275f7c0544374d40bc8d9c81f96751a41df45
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f830968d464f55e11bc9260a132fc77daa266aa3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea09922f5f75652d55b481ee34011fc7f19868b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58889d5ad74cbc1c9595db74e13522b58b69b0ec
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/461f8ac666fa232afee5ed6420099913ec4e4ba2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7723a5d5d187626c4c640842e522cf4e9e39492e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed0acb1ee2e9322b96611635a9ca9303d15ac76c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41320b18a0e0dfb236dba4edb9be12dba1878156

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