Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: 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 decrease the reference count in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().
Affected products
linux: linux kernel
References8
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3a Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/06c5340858011aa1195aec43a776e3185fbf7f56 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/43c0e16d0c5ec59398b405f4c4aa5a076e656c3f Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/63956ad27a6882f01fea7c69e17823090f4c7b3f Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bc7f4c8c27d526f968788b8a985896755b1df35 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9a76d5ffdecd3b52ac333eb89361b0c9fe04e8 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b191ff1f075c4875f11271cbf0093e6e044a12aa Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e12fac07f61caac9c5b186d827658b3470787619 Patch
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.5
MEDIUM
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 5 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-401
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