CVE-2023-53078

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53078
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53078.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53078
Related
Published
2025-05-02T16:15:26Z
Modified
2025-05-05T22:49:40.817069Z
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: scsidhalua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate()

If aluartpgqueue() 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>] aluaactivate+0xb0/0x320 [<000000003b529641>] scsidhactivate+0xb2/0x140 [<000000007b296db3>] activatepathwork+0xc6/0xe0 [dmmultipath] [<000000007adc9ace>] processonework+0x3c5/0x730 [<00000000c457a985>] workerthread+0x93/0x650 [<00000000cb80e628>] kthread+0x1ba/0x210 [<00000000a1e61077>] retfrom_fork+0x22/0x30

Fix the problem by freeing 'qdata' in error path.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.10.178-1

Affected versions

5.*

5.10.46-4
5.10.46-5
5.10.70-1~bpo10+1
5.10.70-1
5.10.84-1
5.10.92-1~bpo10+1
5.10.92-1
5.10.92-2
5.10.103-1~bpo10+1
5.10.103-1
5.10.106-1
5.10.113-1
5.10.120-1~bpo10+1
5.10.120-1
5.10.127-1
5.10.127-2~bpo10+1
5.10.127-2
5.10.136-1
5.10.140-1
5.10.148-1
5.10.149-1
5.10.149-2
5.10.158-1
5.10.158-2
5.10.162-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.25-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.25-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}