CVE-2023-53472

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pwm: lpc32xx: Remove handling of PWM channels Because LPC32xx PWM controllers have only a single output which is registered as the only PWM device/channel per controller, it is known in advance that pwm->hwpwm value is always 0. On basis of this fact simplify the code by removing operations with pwm->hwpwm, there is no controls which require channel number as input. Even though I wasn't aware at the time when I forward ported that patch, this fixes a null pointer dereference as lpc32xx->chip.pwms is NULL before devm_pwmchip_add() is called.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3a0ddbaf7f1f9ffc070718b417461ced3268758

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abd9b2ee4047ccd980decbf26d61f9637604b1d5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9a505f5b39d8fff1a55963a5e524c84639e98b2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2d9d884e84bfd37892219b1f55847f36d8e9901

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e22217c11424ef958ba28d03ff7167b4d7a8914

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/523f6268e86552a048975749251184c4e9a4b38f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aae44f65827f0213a7361cf9c32cfe06114473f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04301da4d87067a989f70ee56942bf9d97cd2a45

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-01

Updated: 2025-10-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024