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CVE-2023-53512 (GCVE-0-2023-53512)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:46 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:46
VLAI
Title
scsi: mpt3sas: Fix a memory leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpt3sas: Fix a memory leak Add a forgotten kfree().
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: dbec4c9040edc15442c3ebdb65408aa9d3b82c24 , < 30c7c72b6cf9d8c95f9b219c9d2e4e31b15bebe5 (git)
Affected: dbec4c9040edc15442c3ebdb65408aa9d3b82c24 , < 378cc0eec4aa546ce1ae17515e2dfab719d4fb1e (git)
Affected: dbec4c9040edc15442c3ebdb65408aa9d3b82c24 , < 847cdbdcd5a24c1eec9595161a23b88fef91ff42 (git)
Affected: dbec4c9040edc15442c3ebdb65408aa9d3b82c24 , < 28137ea3eb05a87329a7154a8ff410d9e8bcc0a5 (git)
Affected: dbec4c9040edc15442c3ebdb65408aa9d3b82c24 , < 54dd96015e8d7a2a07359e2dfebf05b529d1780c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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