CVE-2023-53242

CVE-2023-53242

High · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

thermal/drivers/hisi: Drop second sensor hi3660

The commit 74c8e6bffbe1 ("driver core: Add __alloc_size hint to devm

allocators") exposes a panic "BRK handler: Fatal exception" on the

hi3660_thermal_probe funciton.

This is because the function allocates memory for only one

sensors array entry, but tries to fill up a second one.

Fix this by removing the unneeded second access.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00164 · 5.3th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T19:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20.1, < 5.4.2355.4.235
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1735.10.173
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.995.15.99
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.166.1.16
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.2.36.2.3
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:23Z
    thermal/drivers/hisi: Drop second sensor hi3660
    cvelistv5