CVE-2023-52868

kernel: thermal: core: prevent potential string overflow

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 21, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

thermal: core: prevent potential string overflow

The dev->id value comes from ida_alloc() so it's a number between zero and INT_MAX. If it's too high then these sprintf()s will overflow.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')