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FKIE_CVE-2023-53997

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-24 11:15 - Updated: 2025-12-29 15:58

Severity ?

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac4436a5b20e0ef1f608a9ef46c08d5d142f8da6
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adce49089412a9ae28f5c666e0bb12fbcd86b3f7

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthermal: of: fix double-free on unregistration\n\nSince commit 3d439b1a2ad3 (\"thermal/core: Alloc-copy-free the thermal\nzone parameters structure\"), thermal_zone_device_register() allocates\na copy of the tzp argument and frees it when unregistering, so\nthermal_of_zone_register() now ends up leaking its original tzp and\ndouble-freeing the tzp copy. Fix this by locating tzp on stack instead."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2023-53997",
  "lastModified": "2025-12-29T15:58:56.260",
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  "published": "2025-12-24T11:15:52.607",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2023-53997 (GCVE-0-2023-53997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2025-12-24 10:55

Title

thermal: of: fix double-free on unregistration

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adce49089412a9ae2…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac4436a5b20e0ef1f…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 3d439b1a2ad36c8b4ea151c8de25309d60d17407 , < adce49089412a9ae28f5c666e0bb12fbcd86b3f7 (git)
Affected: 3d439b1a2ad36c8b4ea151c8de25309d60d17407 , < ac4436a5b20e0ef1f608a9ef46c08d5d142f8da6 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.8 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2023-53997 (GCVE-0-2023-53997)

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