CVE-2023-53078

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-05-02 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate() If alua_rtpg_queue() 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>] alua_activate+0xb0/0x320 [<000000003b529641>] scsi_dh_activate+0xb2/0x140 [<000000007b296db3>] activate_path_work+0xc6/0xe0 [dm_multipath] [<000000007adc9ace>] process_one_work+0x3c5/0x730 [<00000000c457a985>] worker_thread+0x93/0x650 [<00000000cb80e628>] kthread+0x1ba/0x210 [<00000000a1e61077>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 Fix the problem by freeing 'qdata' in error path.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (22)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238 < 123483df146492ca22b503ae6dacc2ce7c3a3974
Linux Linux 625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238 < c110051d335ef7f62ad33474b0c23997fee5bfb5
Linux Linux 625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238 < 5c4d71424df34fc23dc5336d09394ce68c849542
Linux Linux 625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238 < c09cdf6eb815ee35e55d6c50ac7f63db58bd20b8
Linux Linux 625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238 < 9311e7a554dffd3823499e309a8b86a5cd1540e5
Linux Linux 625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238 < 1c55982beb80c7d3c30278fc6cfda8496a31dbe6
Linux Linux 625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238 < 0d89254a4320eb7de0970c478172f764125c6355
Linux Linux 625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238 < a13faca032acbf2699293587085293bdfaafc8ae
Linux Linux 68b275b7cbf065a8ea9b964cbb7d78d2b63c635f
Linux Linux 2b1725d1df362499f6bbd5a7e245a4090b29c2bb
Linux Linux 4.9.21 < 4.10
Linux Linux 4.10.9 < 4.11
Linux Linux 4.11
linux linux_kernel 4.9.21 – 4.10
linux linux_kernel 4.11
linux linux_kernel 4.11
linux linux_kernel 4.11
linux linux_kernel 4.11
linux linux_kernel 4.11
linux linux_kernel 6.3
linux linux_kernel 6.3
linux linux_kernel 6.3

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.20%
Raw Score 0.002020
Percentile 10.3%
Date 2026-11-06

EPSS Trend

2026-11-06
0.00202
2026-11-05
0.00202

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
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