CVE-2023-53078

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-05-02T15:55:28.246Z
Modified
2026-03-12T03:27:57.416687Z
Summary
scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate()
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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53078.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238
Fixed
123483df146492ca22b503ae6dacc2ce7c3a3974
Fixed
c110051d335ef7f62ad33474b0c23997fee5bfb5
Fixed
5c4d71424df34fc23dc5336d09394ce68c849542
Fixed
c09cdf6eb815ee35e55d6c50ac7f63db58bd20b8
Fixed
9311e7a554dffd3823499e309a8b86a5cd1540e5
Fixed
1c55982beb80c7d3c30278fc6cfda8496a31dbe6
Fixed
0d89254a4320eb7de0970c478172f764125c6355
Fixed
a13faca032acbf2699293587085293bdfaafc8ae
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
68b275b7cbf065a8ea9b964cbb7d78d2b63c635f
Last affected
2b1725d1df362499f6bbd5a7e245a4090b29c2bb

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53078.json"