CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53472
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- 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:
pwm: lpc32xx: Remove handling of PWM channels
Because LPC32xx PWM controllers have only a single output which is
registered as the only PWM device/channel per controller, it is known in
advance that pwm->hwpwm value is always 0. On basis of this fact
simplify the code by removing operations with pwm->hwpwm, there is no
controls which require channel number as input.
Even though I wasn't aware at the time when I forward ported that patch,
this fixes a null pointer dereference as lpc32xx->chip.pwms is NULL
before devm_pwmchip_add() is called.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9.284 < 4.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14.248 < 4.14.326)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.208 < 4.19.295)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.149 < 5.4.257)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.69 < 5.10.195)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14.8 < 5.15.132)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04301da4d87067a989f70ee56942bf9d97cd2a45 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aae44f65827f0213a7361cf9c32cfe06114473f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/523f6268e86552a048975749251184c4e9a4b38f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e22217c11424ef958ba28d03ff7167b4d7a8914 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2d9d884e84bfd37892219b1f55847f36d8e9901 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9a505f5b39d8fff1a55963a5e524c84639e98b2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abd9b2ee4047ccd980decbf26d61f9637604b1d5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3a0ddbaf7f1f9ffc070718b417461ced3268758 Patch