CVE-2026-23091

medium

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().

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9b059bda4276f2bb72cb98ec7875a747f042ea2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf7785434b5d05d940d936b78925080950bd54dd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b71e64ef7ff9443835d1333e3e80ab1e49e5209f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af4b9467296b9a16ebc008147238070236982b6d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95fc36a234da24bbc5f476f8104a5a15f99ed3e3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64015cbf06e8bb75b81ae95b997e847b55280f7f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fca16c5591534cc1fec8b6181277ee3a3d0f26c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-04

Updated: 2026-03-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018