CVE-2023-52863: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.7, before 5.10.201 (fixed in 5.10.201); from 5.11, before 5.15.139 (fixed in 5.15.139); from 5.16, before 6.1.63 (fixed in 6.1.63); from 6.2, before 6.5.12 (fixed in 6.5.12); from 6.6, before 6.6.2 (fixed in 6.6.2)

Published 2024-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.