CVE-2023-6679: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in dpll_pin_parent_pin_set() in drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c in the Digital Phase Locked Loop (DPLL) subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue could be exploited to trigger a denial of service.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 38 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 9.0 only

Published 2023-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.