CVE-2023-53483

kernel: ACPI: processor: Check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in fch_misc_setup()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 1, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

ACPI: processor: Check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in fch_misc_setup()

devm_kzalloc() may fail, clk_data->name might be NULL and will cause a NULL pointer dereference later.

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CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference