FKIE_CVE-2023-53206

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-15 15:15 - Updated: 2025-12-04 15:06
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (pmbus_core) Fix NULL pointer dereference Pass i2c_client to _pmbus_is_enabled to drop the assumption that a regulator device is passed in. This will fix the issue of a NULL pointer dereference when called from _pmbus_get_flags.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bd66784274a287beada2933c2c0fa3a0ddae0d7Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7444253cacd92412bc8d33d1c9b5401f52cdf0e2Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.5
linux linux_kernel 6.5
linux linux_kernel 6.5
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