Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 6, 2026· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2026-43160
CVE-2026-43160
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex
Initialize struct apple_smc's mutex in apple_smc_probe(). Using the mutex uninitialized surprisingly resulted only in occasional NULL pointer dereferences in apple_smc_read() calls from the probe() functions of sub devices.
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