CVE-2023-53631 (GCVE-0-2023-53631)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:19 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
platform/x86: dell-sysman: Fix reference leak
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d , < d079a3e1ccdd183b75db4f5289be347980b45284
(git)
Affected: e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d , < 6ced15ff1746006476f1407fe722911a45a7874d (git) Affected: e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d , < c5402011992bcc2b5614fe7fef24f9cdaec7473b (git) Affected: e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d , < 9d9e03bec147407826266580e7d6ec427241d859 (git) Affected: e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d , < 7295a996fdab7bf83dc3d4078fa8b139b8e0a1bf (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.53 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.16 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5.3 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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