CVE-2023-53830 (GCVE-0-2023-53830)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:29 – Updated: 2025-12-09 01:29
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Title
platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leak when showing current settings
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leak when showing current settings When retriving a item string with tlmi_setting(), the result has to be freed using kfree(). In current_value_show() however, malformed item strings are not freed, causing a memory leak. Fix this by eliminating the early return responsible for this.
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Linux Linux Affected: 0fdf10e5fc964c315cf131a2eaab9cc531a9f40f , < b9396d991abe8d1ac31a043274ab20b49f92c2e6 (git)
Affected: 0fdf10e5fc964c315cf131a2eaab9cc531a9f40f , < 9071525bfcb1f5674117dbed3eca0cd7b122813b (git)
Affected: 0fdf10e5fc964c315cf131a2eaab9cc531a9f40f , < 5f99014c19fa50a5719c0bb78143282632675893 (git)
Affected: 0fdf10e5fc964c315cf131a2eaab9cc531a9f40f , < a3c4c053014585dcf20f4df954791b74d8a8afcd (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.107 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.24 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.11 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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