CVE-2023-53612 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.66%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 4
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (coretemp) Simplify platform device handling
Coretemp's platform driver is unconventional. All the real work is done
globally by the initcall and CPU hotplug notifiers, while the "driver"
effectively just wraps an allocation and the registration of the hwmon
interface in a long-winded round-trip through the driver core. The whole
logic of dynamically creating and destroying platform devices to bring
the interfaces up an…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxe1b370b64031a01bb0c4158ce250073a88921fe1 — 4000384684f612b3645a944f6acde0e65ac370b8+6
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-w3m2-4m45-q2fh: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (coretemp) Simplify platform device handling
Coretemp's platform driver i↗2025-10-04
OSV▶
CVE-2023-53612: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (coretemp) Simplify platform device handling Coretemp's platform driver is↗2025-10-04