CVE-2023-53483: 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: ACPI: processor: Check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in fch_misc_setup() devm_kzalloc() may fail, clk_data->name might be NULL and will cause a NULL pointer dereference later. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.17, before 6.1.30 (fixed in 6.1.30); from 6.2, before 6.3.4 (fixed in 6.3.4)

Published 2025-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.