CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53631

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-07
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: dell-sysman: Fix reference leak If a duplicate attribute is found using kset_find_obj(), a reference to that attribute is returned. This means that we need to dispose it accordingly. Use kobject_put() to dispose the duplicate attribute in such a case. Compile-tested only.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.132) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.53) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.5.3)

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