CVE-2023-52473

En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: Thermal: Core: corrige la desreferencia del puntero NULL en la ruta del error de registro de zona. Si device_register() en Thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() devuelve un error, la variable tz se establece en NULL y posteriormente se desreferencia en kfree( tz->tzp). el commit adc8749b150c ("thermal/drivers/core: use put_device() si falla el dispositivo_register()") agregó la asignación tz = NULL en cuestión para evitar una posible doble liberación después de eliminar la referencia al dispositivo de zona. Sin embargo, después de el commit 4649620d9404 ("thermal: core: Make Thermal_zone_device_unregister() return después de liberar la zona"), esa asignación se ha vuelto redundante, porque eliminar la referencia al dispositivo de zona ya no causa que el objeto de zona se libere más. Suéltelo para abordar la desreferencia del puntero NULL.

is a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, specifically within the thermal management subsystem. This vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference that occurs in the thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() function during the thermal zone registration error path. This issue can cause crashes and system instability.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: core: Fix NULL pointer dereference in zone registration error path If device_register() in thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() returns an error, the tz variable is set to NULL and subsequently dereferenced in kfree(tz->tzp). Commit adc8749b150c ("thermal/drivers/core: Use put_device() if device_register() fails") added the tz = NULL assignment in question to avoid a possible double-free after dropping the reference to the zone device. However, after commit 4649620d9404 ("thermal: core: Make thermal_zone_device_unregister() return after freeing the zone"), that assignment has become redundant, because dropping the reference to the zone device does not cause the zone object to be freed any more. Drop it to address the NULL pointer dereference.