Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting kernel-livepatch-6.1.49-69.116 package, versions <0:1.0-0.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNELLIVEPATCH614969116-13552457
  • published15 Oct 2025
  • disclosed15 Sept 2025

Introduced: 15 Sep 2025

CVE-2023-53174  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.49-69.116 to version 0:1.0-0.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2023-330.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6.1.49-69.116 package and not the kernel-livepatch-6.1.49-69.116 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails

If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs be freed. As the comment of device_add() says, put_device() should be used to decrease the reference count in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1