CVE-2023-54017

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()If device_register() returns error in ibmebus_bus_init(), name of kobjectwhich is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.As comment of device_add() says, it should call put_device() to dropthe reference count that was set in device_initialize() when it fails,so the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234