CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-52520

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-03-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix reference leak If a duplicate attribute is found using kset_find_obj(), a reference to that attribute is returned which needs to be disposed accordingly using kobject_put(). Move the setting name validation into a separate function to allow for this change without having to duplicate the cleanup code for this setting. As a side note, a very similar bug was fixed in commit 7295a996fdab ("platform/x86: dell-sysman: Fix reference leak"), so it seems that the bug was copied from that driver. Compile-tested only.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14 < 5.15.136) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.59) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.8) • linux linux kernel 6.6

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