CVE-2026-23131

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23131
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23131.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-23131
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-02-14T15:09:58.916Z
Modified
2026-04-02T17:30:11.427741610Z
Summary
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kobject warnings for empty attribute names
Details

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

platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kobject warnings for empty attribute names

The hp-bioscfg driver attempts to register kobjects with empty names when the HP BIOS returns attributes with empty name strings. This causes multiple kernel warnings:

kobject: (00000000135fb5e6): attempted to be registered with empty name! WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 3336 at lib/kobject.c:219 kobjectaddinternal+0x2eb/0x310

Add validation in hpinitbiosbufferattribute() to check if the attribute name is empty after parsing it from the WMI buffer. If empty, log a debug message and skip registration of that attribute, allowing the module to continue processing other valid attributes.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/23xxx/CVE-2026-23131.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a34fc329b1895fc8a6eb12099adc47009421ba6a
Fixed
29917c80aa96a25cbcf5876fd774a1cfd72b01a9
Fixed
6476be59b7162b891b7bddbd0c2924d87379ef6c
Fixed
800b2767905d6b409b8bbe357121970f0b489a89
Fixed
fdee1b09721605f532352628d0a24623e7062efb

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23131.json"