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CVE-2023-53483

Status: AnalyzedMedium (5.5)—

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.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

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Affected technologies (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

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