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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52520"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-02T21:52:28.434Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:28:53.401Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52520"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52520.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52520"
title: "platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix reference leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: think-lmi: Fix reference leak\n\nIf a duplicate attribute is found using kset_find_obj(), a reference\nto that attribute is returned which needs to be disposed accordingly\nusing kobject_put(). Move the setting name validation into a separate\nfunction to allow for this change without having to duplicate the\ncleanup code for this setting.\nAs a side note, a very similar bug was fixed in\ncommit 7295a996fdab (\"platform/x86: dell-sysman: Fix reference leak\"),\nso it seems that the bug was copied from that driver.\n\nCompile-tested only."
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