CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53012
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-03-27
- 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:
thermal: core: call put_device() only after device_register() fails
put_device() shouldn't be called before a prior call to
device_register(). __thermal_cooling_device_register() doesn't follow
that properly and needs fixing. Also
thermal_cooling_device_destroy_sysfs() is getting called unnecessarily
on few error paths.
Fix all this by placing the calls at the right place.
Based on initial work done by Caleb Connolly.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.86 < 5.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0.16 < 6.1)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.2 < 6.2)
• linux linux kernel 6.2