# CVE-2023-52868: thermal: core: prevent potential string overflow

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-21 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.25

## 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.

## What to do

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b55f0a9f865be75ca1019aad331f3225f7b50ce8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ad1bf47fbe5750c4d5d8e41337665e193e2c521
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3091ab943dfc7b2578599b0fe203350286fab5bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f795fb35c2d8a637efe76b4518216c9319b998c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a8f4e58e1ee707b4f46a1000b40b86ea3dd509c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77ff34a56b695e228e6daf30ee30be747973d6e8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f6b3be28c4d62ef6498133959c72266629bea97
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edbd6bbe40ac524a8f2273ffacc53edf14f3c686
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c99626092efca3061b387043d4a7399bf75fbdd5

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