Upstream information

CVE-2023-53631 at MITRE

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

platform/x86: dell-sysman: Fix reference leak

If a duplicate attribute is found using kset_find_obj(),
a reference to that attribute is returned. This means
that we need to dispose it accordingly. Use kobject_put()
to dispose the duplicate attribute in such a case.

Compile-tested only.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: New

This issue is currently rated as having not set severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1251529 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Oct 7 20:00:24 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 8 22:09:39 2025