CVE-2023-53830: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 5.14, before 5.15.107 (fixed in 5.15.107); from 5.16, before 6.1.24 (fixed in 6.1.24); from 6.2, before 6.2.11 (fixed in 6.2.11)

Published 2025-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.