CVE-2023-53631 PUBLISHED

platform/x86: dell-sysman: Fix reference leak

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 07.10.2025 Published: 07.10.2025 Updated: 07.10.2025

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to d079a3e1ccdd183b75db4f5289be347980b45284 (excl.)
  • affected from e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to 6ced15ff1746006476f1407fe722911a45a7874d (excl.)
  • affected from e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to c5402011992bcc2b5614fe7fef24f9cdaec7473b (excl.)
  • affected from e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to 9d9e03bec147407826266580e7d6ec427241d859 (excl.)
  • affected from e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to 7295a996fdab7bf83dc3d4078fa8b139b8e0a1bf (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.132 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.53 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.4.16 to 6.4.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.5.3 to 6.5.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6 to * (incl.)

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