cve-2023-52473
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-25 08:16
Modified
2024-11-04 14:47
Severity ?
Summary
thermal: core: Fix NULL pointer dereference in zone registration error path
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02871710b93058eb1249d5847c0b2d1c2c3c98aePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20eaPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/335176dd8ebaca6493807dceea33c478305667faPatch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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