CVE-2023-53997 (GCVE-0-2023-53997)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2025-12-24 10:55
VLAI?
Title
thermal: of: fix double-free on unregistration
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
thermal: of: fix double-free on unregistration
Since commit 3d439b1a2ad3 ("thermal/core: Alloc-copy-free the thermal
zone parameters structure"), thermal_zone_device_register() allocates
a copy of the tzp argument and frees it when unregistering, so
thermal_of_zone_register() now ends up leaking its original tzp and
double-freeing the tzp copy. Fix this by locating tzp on stack instead.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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