Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-53012
CVE-2023-53012
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
thermal: core: call put_device() only after device_register() fails
put_device() shouldn't be called before a prior call to device_register(). __thermal_cooling_device_register() doesn't follow that properly and needs fixing. Also thermal_cooling_device_destroy_sysfs() is getting called unnecessarily on few error paths.
Fix all this by placing the calls at the right place.
Based on initial work done by Caleb Connolly.
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