CVE-2026-23091 (GCVE-0-2026-23091)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-04 16:08 – Updated: 2026-02-06 16:33
VLAI?
Title
intel_th: fix device leak on output open()
Summary
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().
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < af4b9467296b9a16ebc008147238070236982b6d
(git)
Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < 64015cbf06e8bb75b81ae95b997e847b55280f7f (git) Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < b71e64ef7ff9443835d1333e3e80ab1e49e5209f (git) Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < bf7785434b5d05d940d936b78925080950bd54dd (git) Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < 0fca16c5591534cc1fec8b6181277ee3a3d0f26c (git) Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < f9b059bda4276f2bb72cb98ec7875a747f042ea2 (git) Affected: 39f4034693b7c7bd1fe4cb58c93259d600f55561 , < 95fc36a234da24bbc5f476f8104a5a15f99ed3e3 (git) |
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