Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2023-54017

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init() If device_register() returns error in ibmebus_bus_init(), name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked. As comment of device_add() says, it should call put_device() to drop the reference count that was set in device_initialize() when it fails, so the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().

EPSS: 0.002 (9.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions d7a301033f1990188f65abf4fe8e5b90ef0e3888, 2.6.16, 0

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