CVE-2023-53483

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53483

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53483.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53483

Downstream

BELL-CVE-2023-53483

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53483

RHSA-2024:3138

RHSA-2024:9315

ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-53483

ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53483

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53483

Published

2025-10-01T11:42:51.778Z

Modified

2026-02-24T07:34:13.267207Z

Summary

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

Details

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

ACPI: processor: Check for null return of devmkzalloc() in fchmisc_setup()

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

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

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

7fdb98e8a768b3ccc05494d3ea4436047f512b9d

Fixed

79ca94bc3e8cc3befa883c7d30b30a27ef0ea386

Fixed

8a632ff6a2bea49993002b4c46092a2aea625840

Fixed

4dea41775d951ff1f7b472a346a8ca3ae7e74455

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.16

v5.16-rc2

v5.16-rc3

v5.16-rc4

v5.16-rc5

v5.16-rc6

v5.16-rc7

v5.16-rc8

v5.17

v5.17-rc1

v5.17-rc2

v5.17-rc3

v5.17-rc4

v5.17-rc5

v5.17-rc6

v5.17-rc7

v5.17-rc8

v5.18

v5.18-rc1

v5.18-rc2

v5.18-rc3

v5.18-rc4

v5.18-rc5

v5.18-rc6

v5.18-rc7

v5.19

v5.19-rc1

v5.19-rc2

v5.19-rc3

v5.19-rc4

v5.19-rc5

v5.19-rc6

v5.19-rc7

v5.19-rc8

v6.*

v6.0

v6.0-rc1

v6.0-rc2

v6.0-rc3

v6.0-rc4

v6.0-rc5

v6.0-rc6

v6.0-rc7

v6.1

v6.1-rc1

v6.1-rc2

v6.1-rc3

v6.1-rc4

v6.1-rc5

v6.1-rc6

v6.1-rc7

v6.1-rc8

v6.1.1

v6.1.10

v6.1.11

v6.1.12

v6.1.13

v6.1.14

v6.1.15

v6.1.16

v6.1.17

v6.1.18

v6.1.19

v6.1.2

v6.1.20

v6.1.21

v6.1.22

v6.1.23

v6.1.24

v6.1.25

v6.1.26

v6.1.27

v6.1.28

v6.1.29

v6.1.3

v6.1.4

v6.1.5

v6.1.6

v6.1.7

v6.1.8

v6.1.9

v6.2

v6.2-rc1

v6.2-rc2

v6.2-rc3

v6.2-rc4

v6.2-rc5

v6.2-rc6

v6.2-rc7

v6.2-rc8

v6.3

v6.3-rc1

v6.3-rc2

v6.3-rc3

v6.3-rc4

v6.3-rc5

v6.3-rc6

v6.3-rc7

v6.3.1

v6.3.2

v6.3.3

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53483.json"

Git / github.com/gregkh/linux