# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53012"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:41.693Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T09:27:35.445Z"
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-2023-53012"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53012.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53012"
title: "thermal: core: call put_device() only after device_register() fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthermal: core: call put_device() only after device_register() fails\n\nput_device() shouldn't be called before a prior call to\ndevice_register(). __thermal_cooling_device_register() doesn't follow\nthat properly and needs fixing. Also\nthermal_cooling_device_destroy_sysfs() is getting called unnecessarily\non few error paths.\n\nFix all this by placing the calls at the right place.\n\nBased on initial work done by Caleb Connolly."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"108a6f91e2766a6d9142b1f2d90c07ac547eae7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7d736cc3c6cb0d7498bbfb56515d414e35e9510"},{"version":"80bb3b901abe6560620505e5c734d140c4f73a07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2846a7412f6246fd5171f51011bf76dfebcec0ee"},{"version":"c408b3d1d9bbc7de5fb0304fea424ef2539da616","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c54b7bc8a31ce0f7cc7f8deef05067df414f1d8"},{"version":"5139cbc0c6e4bf2fcffc9a7ed4350bf6985bc561","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c4c435d3637b5d0abaa6447c7366c3674364968a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e0d8b51bbe84d6a98c162e06344de2d773d9e722","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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