CVE-2023-53631

high

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d079a3e1ccdd183b75db4f5289be347980b45284

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5402011992bcc2b5614fe7fef24f9cdaec7473b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d9e03bec147407826266580e7d6ec427241d859

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7295a996fdab7bf83dc3d4078fa8b139b8e0a1bf

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ced15ff1746006476f1407fe722911a45a7874d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-07

Updated: 2025-10-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018