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CVE-2023-54252 (GCVE-0-2023-54252)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:15 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:58
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Title
platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leaks when parsing ThinkStation WMI strings
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leaks when parsing ThinkStation WMI strings My previous commit introduced a memory leak where the item allocated from tlmi_setting was not freed. This commit also renames it to avoid confusion with the similarly name variable in the same function.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: dae47bf0222e1e0eb6684c7e141b7170b0884a4c , < cccdb30935c82be805d3362a15680b95d5cb3ee0 (git)
Affected: f0a67ad7dce49d93570edc795e0312bb787f19bb , < 081da7b1c881828244b93b3befb7c18389f696bb (git)
Affected: c9c542eba4edf8d061bd2e5007cf598625e112df , < 43fc0342bac1808fda2b76184e43414727111c6b (git)
Affected: 8a02d70679fc1c434401863333c8ea7dbf201494 , < e7d796fccdc8d17c2d21817ebe4c7bf5bbfe5433 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15.106 , < 5.15.107 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.23 , < 6.1.24 (semver)
Affected: 6.2.10 , < 6.2.11 (semver)
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