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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53078" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:55:28.246Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:27:55.120Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53078" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53078.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53078" title: "scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate()\n\nIf alua_rtpg_queue() failed from alua_activate(), then 'qdata' is not\nfreed, which will cause following memleak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810b2c6980 (size 32):\n comm \"kworker/u16:2\", pid 635322, jiffies 4355801099 (age 1216426.076s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 40 39 24 c1 ff ff ff ff 00 f8 ea 0a 81 88 ff ff @9$.............\n backtrace:\n [\u003c0000000098f3a26d\u003e] alua_activate+0xb0/0x320\n [\u003c000000003b529641\u003e] scsi_dh_activate+0xb2/0x140\n [\u003c000000007b296db3\u003e] activate_path_work+0xc6/0xe0 [dm_multipath]\n [\u003c000000007adc9ace\u003e] process_one_work+0x3c5/0x730\n [\u003c00000000c457a985\u003e] worker_thread+0x93/0x650\n [\u003c00000000cb80e628\u003e] kthread+0x1ba/0x210\n [\u003c00000000a1e61077\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n\nFix the problem by freeing 'qdata' in error path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"123483df146492ca22b503ae6dacc2ce7c3a3974"},{"version":"625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c110051d335ef7f62ad33474b0c23997fee5bfb5"},{"version":"625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c4d71424df34fc23dc5336d09394ce68c849542"},{"version":"625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c09cdf6eb815ee35e55d6c50ac7f63db58bd20b8"},{"version":"625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9311e7a554dffd3823499e309a8b86a5cd1540e5"},{"version":"625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c55982beb80c7d3c30278fc6cfda8496a31dbe6"},{"version":"625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d89254a4320eb7de0970c478172f764125c6355"},{"version":"625fe857e4fac6518716f3c0ff5e5deb8ec6d238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a13faca032acbf2699293587085293bdfaafc8ae"},{"version":"68b275b7cbf065a8ea9b964cbb7d78d2b63c635f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2b1725d1df362499f6bbd5a7e245a4090b29c2bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.9.21","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.10.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.11"},{"version":"4.14.312","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.280","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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