Upstream information

CVE-2026-23131 at MITRE

Description

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

platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kobject warnings for empty attribute names

The hp-bioscfg driver attempts to register kobjects with empty names when
the HP BIOS returns attributes with empty name strings. This causes
multiple kernel warnings:

kobject: (00000000135fb5e6): attempted to be registered with empty name!
WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 3336 at lib/kobject.c:219 kobject_add_internal+0x2eb/0x310

Add validation in hp_init_bios_buffer_attribute() to check if the
attribute name is empty after parsing it from the WMI buffer. If empty,
log a debug message and skip registration of that attribute, allowing the
module to continue processing other valid attributes.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1258297 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Feb 17 12:59:53 2026
CVE page last modified: Tue Feb 17 12:59:53 2026