CVE-2023-54298 (GCVE-0-2023-54298)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:59
VLAI
Title
thermal: intel: quark_dts: fix error pointer dereference
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: intel: quark_dts: fix error pointer dereference If alloc_soc_dts() fails, then we can just return. Trying to free "soc_dts" will lead to an Oops.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 8c1876939663191b5044807230fa295f35462215 , < 0b366c6a42e2e2bc67af8d1130b68f3bfa31c80e (git)
Affected: 8c1876939663191b5044807230fa295f35462215 , < d0178f2788fb1183a5cc350213efdc94010b9147 (git)
Affected: 8c1876939663191b5044807230fa295f35462215 , < e23f1d9e6e03d04da2f18e78ab5d4255ffeb1333 (git)
Affected: 8c1876939663191b5044807230fa295f35462215 , < f73134231fa23e0856c15010db5f5c03693c1e92 (git)
Affected: 8c1876939663191b5044807230fa295f35462215 , < 5eaf55b38691291d49417c22e726591078ca1893 (git)
Affected: 8c1876939663191b5044807230fa295f35462215 , < 69e49f1b53605706bc2203455021539aba2ebe21 (git)
Affected: 8c1876939663191b5044807230fa295f35462215 , < 24c221b11c2894e1a5f07b93362d9bc91c6d8be7 (git)
Affected: 8c1876939663191b5044807230fa295f35462215 , < f1b930e740811d416de4d2074da48b6633a672c8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.100 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.18 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.5 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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