CVE-2023-52873: 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: clk: mediatek: clk-mt6779: Add check for mtk_alloc_clk_data Add the check for the return value of mtk_alloc_clk_data() in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.4, before 5.4.261 (fixed in 5.4.261); from 5.5, 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.