CVE-2023-54252 (GCVE-0-2023-54252)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-30 12:15
Modified
2025-12-30 12:15
Severity ?
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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Linux Linux Version: dae47bf0222e1e0eb6684c7e141b7170b0884a4c
Version: f0a67ad7dce49d93570edc795e0312bb787f19bb
Version: c9c542eba4edf8d061bd2e5007cf598625e112df
Version: 8a02d70679fc1c434401863333c8ea7dbf201494
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   Linux Linux Version: 5.15.106   ≤
Version: 6.1.23   ≤
Version: 6.2.10   ≤
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