CVE-2023-52571
kernel: power: supply: rk817: refcount leak in rk817_charger_probe()
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · March 2, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: rk817: Fix node refcount leak
Dan Carpenter reports that the Smatch static checker warning has found that there is another refcount leak in the probe function. While of_node_put() was added in one of the return paths, it should in fact be added for ALL return paths that return an error and at driver removal time.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-911 · Improper Update of Reference Count