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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

hwmon: (axi-fan-control) Fix possible NULL pointer dereference

CVE-2023-52863

Description

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

hwmon: (axi-fan-control) Fix possible NULL pointer dereference

axi_fan_control_irq_handler(), dependent on the private axi_fan_control_data structure, might be called before the hwmon device is registered. That will cause an "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" error.

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