CVE-2023-53078

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-401

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
May 2, 2025
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2023-53078: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix