Riskcovery

CVE-2023-53206

hwmon: (pmbus_core) Fix NULL pointer dereference

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2025

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • df5f6b6af01ca326dd4babb287c9580fed0ad3d6 to before 7444253cacd92412bc8d33d1c9b5401f52cdf0e2Affected
  • df5f6b6af01ca326dd4babb287c9580fed0ad3d6 to before 0bd66784274a287beada2933c2c0fa3a0ddae0d7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.4.8 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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