CVE-2023-53830 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-53830

platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leak when showing current settings

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leak when showing current settings When retriving a item string with tlmi_setting(), the result has to be freed using kfree(). In current_value_show() however, malformed item strings are not freed, causing a memory leak. Fix this by eliminating the early return responsible for this.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0fdf10e5fc964c315cf131a2eaab9cc531a9f40f, 5.14, 0, 5.15.107, 6.1.24, 6.2.11, 6.3

Timeline

Official Publish: December 9th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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