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        "cveId": "CVE-2023-53696",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-10-22T13:21:37.344Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-10-22T13:23:37.110Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:50:06.289Z"
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                    "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."
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