CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53206
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.4.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness