CVE-2023-53206

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53206

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53206.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53206

Downstream

BELL-CVE-2023-53206

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53206

SUSE-SU-2025:3751-1

SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1

SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53206

Related

Published

2025-09-15T14:21:34.551Z

Modified

2026-02-20T08:54:08.867855Z

Summary

hwmon: (pmbus_core) Fix NULL pointer dereference

Details

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

hwmon: (pmbus_core) Fix NULL pointer dereference

Pass i2cclient to _pmbusis_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 pmbusget_flags.

Database specific

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References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events: Introduced

df5f6b6af01ca326dd4babb287c9580fed0ad3d6

Fixed

7444253cacd92412bc8d33d1c9b5401f52cdf0e2

Fixed

0bd66784274a287beada2933c2c0fa3a0ddae0d7

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.3

v6.3-rc6

v6.3-rc7

v6.4

v6.4-rc1

v6.4-rc2

v6.4-rc3

v6.4-rc4

v6.4-rc5

v6.4-rc6

v6.4-rc7

v6.4.1

v6.4.2

v6.4.3

v6.4.4

v6.4.5

v6.4.6

v6.4.7

v6.5-rc1

Database specific

source

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Git / github.com/gregkh/linux