CVE-2023-54294

Updated on 30 Dec 2025

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

CVSS score
8.6

Overview

About vulnerability

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

md/raid10: fix memleak of md thread

In raid10_run(), if setup_conf() succeed and raid10_run() failed before setting ‘mddev->thread’, then in the error path ‘conf->thread’ is not freed.

Fix the problem by setting ‘mddev->thread’ right after setup_conf().

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+2 more)

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

md/raid10: fix memleak of md thread

In raid10_run(), if setup_conf() succeed and raid10_run() failed before setting ‘mddev->thread’, then in the error path ‘conf->thread’ is not freed.

Fix the problem by setting ‘mddev->thread’ right after setup_conf().

Fixes