CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23091
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
intel_th: fix device leak on output open()
Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the th device
during output device open() on errors and on close().
Note that a recent commit fixed the leak in a couple of open() error
paths but not all of them, and the reference is still leaking on
successful open().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.4 < 5.10.249)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.199)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.162)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.122)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.68)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.19
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fca16c5591534cc1fec8b6181277ee3a3d0f26c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64015cbf06e8bb75b81ae95b997e847b55280f7f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95fc36a234da24bbc5f476f8104a5a15f99ed3e3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af4b9467296b9a16ebc008147238070236982b6d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b71e64ef7ff9443835d1333e3e80ab1e49e5209f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf7785434b5d05d940d936b78925080950bd54dd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9b059bda4276f2bb72cb98ec7875a747f042ea2 Patch