linux — security advisory
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.
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.1.20-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-53242
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53242
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.20-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.20-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.20-1
Complete source record
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