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FKIE_CVE-2026-23091

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-04 17:16 - Updated: 2026-03-17 21:09

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

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().

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fca16c5591534cc1fec8b6181277ee3a3d0f26c	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64015cbf06e8bb75b81ae95b997e847b55280f7f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95fc36a234da24bbc5f476f8104a5a15f99ed3e3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af4b9467296b9a16ebc008147238070236982b6d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b71e64ef7ff9443835d1333e3e80ab1e49e5209f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf7785434b5d05d940d936b78925080950bd54dd	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9b059bda4276f2bb72cb98ec7875a747f042ea2	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.19
linux	linux_kernel	6.19
linux	linux_kernel	6.19
linux	linux_kernel	6.19
linux	linux_kernel	6.19
linux	linux_kernel	6.19

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CVE-2026-23091 (GCVE-0-2026-23091)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-04 16:08 – Updated: 2026-02-09 08:38

Title

intel_th: fix device leak on output open()

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af4b9467296b9a16e…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64015cbf06e8bb75b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b71e64ef7ff944383…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf7785434b5d05d94…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fca16c5591534cc1…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9b059bda4276f2bb…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95fc36a234da24bbc…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < af4b9467296b9a16ebc008147238070236982b6d (git)
Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < 64015cbf06e8bb75b81ae95b997e847b55280f7f (git)
Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < b71e64ef7ff9443835d1333e3e80ab1e49e5209f (git)
Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < bf7785434b5d05d940d936b78925080950bd54dd (git)
Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < 0fca16c5591534cc1fec8b6181277ee3a3d0f26c (git)
Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < f9b059bda4276f2bb72cb98ec7875a747f042ea2 (git)
Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < 95fc36a234da24bbc5f476f8104a5a15f99ed3e3 (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.249 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.199 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.162 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.122 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.68 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.8 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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FKIE_CVE-2026-23091

CVE-2026-23091 (GCVE-0-2026-23091)

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