cve-2023-52870
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-21 15:31
Modified
2024-12-19 08:27
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: mediatek: clk-mt6765: Add check for mtk_alloc_clk_data Add the check for the return value of mtk_alloc_clk_data() in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
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Linux Linux Version: 1aca9939bf72893887cb7e3455e44c864bada2f9
Version: 1aca9939bf72893887cb7e3455e44c864bada2f9
Version: 1aca9939bf72893887cb7e3455e44c864bada2f9
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