Riskcovery

CVE-2026-43160

mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 6, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex

Initialize struct apple_smc's mutex in apple_smc_probe(). Using the mutex uninitialized surprisingly resulted only in occasional NULL pointer dereferences in apple_smc_read() calls from the probe() functions of sub devices.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e038d985c9823a12cd64fa077d0c5aca2c644b67 to before a1e9e299c0d9ea42ab1067b39fb72e976d3f1bdbAffected
  • e038d985c9823a12cd64fa077d0c5aca2c644b67 to before 2d5932588f029f7787f52c29174fead9bbc6b2cfAffected
  • e038d985c9823a12cd64fa077d0c5aca2c644b67 to before 414f65d6736342c77d4ec5e7373039f4a09250ddAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.17Affected
  • before 6.17Not affected
  • 6.18.16 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.6 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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