CVE-2023-53242

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/hisi: Drop second sensor hi3660 The commit 74c8e6bffbe1 ("driver core: Add __alloc_size hint to devm allocators") exposes a panic "BRK handler: Fatal exception" on the hi3660_thermal_probe funciton. This is because the function allocates memory for only one sensors array entry, but tries to fill up a second one. Fix this by removing the unneeded second access.

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15cc25829a97c3957e520e971868aacc84341317	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cf2181e438f43ed24e12424fe36d156cca233b9	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68e675a9b69cfc34dd915d91a4650e3ee53421f4	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f6756cd09889c7201ee31e6f76fbd914fb0b80d	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e02bc492883abf751fd1a8d89fc025fbce6744c6	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5aaf140ab1c02889c088e1b1098adad600541af	Patch

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.20:rc7::::::

History

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Information

Published : 2025-09-15 15:15

Updated : 2026-01-14 18:16

NVD link : CVE-2023-53242

Mitre link : CVE-2023-53242

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-53242

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Products Affected

linux

linux_kernel

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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