CVE-2023-53568 (GCVE-0-2023-53568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:17 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:47
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Title
s390/zcrypt: don't leak memory if dev_set_name() fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/zcrypt: don't leak memory if dev_set_name() fails When dev_set_name() fails, zcdn_create() doesn't free the newly allocated resources. Do it.
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Linux Linux Affected: 00fab2350e6b91e57b3cdcd5d9f01056775a921d , < 6b0cb9c055843777b374309503d89eabeb769355 (git)
Affected: 00fab2350e6b91e57b3cdcd5d9f01056775a921d , < 0878052579cb2773caee64812a811edcab6b5a55 (git)
Affected: 00fab2350e6b91e57b3cdcd5d9f01056775a921d , < 131cd74a8e38d75239f2c81dfee53d6554eb8bf8 (git)
Affected: 00fab2350e6b91e57b3cdcd5d9f01056775a921d , < 147d8da33a2c2195ec63acd56cd7d80a3458c253 (git)
Affected: 00fab2350e6b91e57b3cdcd5d9f01056775a921d , < 174f11ef1615ec3ab1e2189685864433c0d855a2 (git)
Affected: 00fab2350e6b91e57b3cdcd5d9f01056775a921d , < 6252f47b78031979ad919f971dc8468b893488bd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.20
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.20 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.257 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.195 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.54 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.4 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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