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{"cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Fix memory leak in qla2x00_probe_one()\n\nThere is a memory leak reported by kmemleak:\n\n unreferenced object 0xffffc900003f0000 (size 12288):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 19117, jiffies 4299751452 (age 42490.264s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [<00000000629261a8>] __vmalloc_node_range+0xe56/0x1110\n [<0000000001906886>] __vmalloc_node+0xbd/0x150\n [<000000005bb4dc34>] vmalloc+0x25/0x30\n [<00000000a2dc1194>] qla2x00_create_host+0x7a0/0xe30 [qla2xxx]\n [<0000000062b14b47>] qla2x00_probe_one+0x2eb8/0xd160 [qla2xxx]\n [<00000000641ccc04>] local_pci_probe+0xeb/0x1a0\n\nThe root cause is traced to an error-handling path in qla2x00_probe_one()\nwhen the adapter \"base_vha\" initialize failed. The fab_scan_rp \"scan.l\" is\nused to record the port information and it is allocated in\nqla2x00_create_host(). However, it is not released in the error handling\npath \"probe_failed\".\n\nFix this by freeing the memory of \"scan.l\" when an error occurs in the\nadapter initialization process."}], "id": "CVE-2023-53696", "lastModified": "2025-10-22T21:12:48.953", "metrics": {}, "published": "2025-10-22T14:15:44.113", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44374911ac63f769c442f56fdfadea673c5f4425"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/582e35e97318ccd9c81774bac08938291679525f"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85ade4010e13ef152ea925c74d94253db92e5428"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae73c4dd48f2c79d515d509a0cbe9efb0a197f44"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"}

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