CVE-2023-52520

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.14 - Reference Leak via Duplicate Attribute Handling in think-lmi

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 15.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 5.14.0 - 5.15.136linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.59linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.5.8linux
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 1bcad8e510b27ad843315ab2c27ccf459e3acded - 124cf0ea4b82e1444ec8c7420af4e7db5558c293
Linux/Linux 1bcad8e510b27ad843315ab2c27ccf459e3acded - 528ab3e605cabf2f9c9bd5944d3bfe15f6e94f81
Linux/Linux 1bcad8e510b27ad843315ab2c27ccf459e3acded - af21c9119a37cecb7ff27ce0c2f3cf721e9d0ec4
Linux/Linux 1bcad8e510b27ad843315ab2c27ccf459e3acded - c6e3023579de8d33256771ac0745239029e81106
Linux/Linux 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.15.136 - 5.15.*
... and 5 more
Published Mar 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026