CVE-2023-53648 (GCVE-0-2023-53648)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:19 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:49
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Title
ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer smatch error: sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2354 snd_ac97_mixer() error: we previously assumed 'rac97' could be null (see line 2072) remove redundant assignment, return error if rac97 is NULL.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < 809af7bb4219bdeef0dbb8b2ed700d6516d13fe9 (git)
Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < e4cccff1e7ab6ea30995b6fbbb007d02647e025c (git)
Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < 5f13d67027fa782096e6aee0db5dce61c4aeb613 (git)
Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < f923a582217b198b557756809ffe42ac0fad6adb (git)
Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < 300e26e3e64880de5013eac8831cf44387ef752c (git)
Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < d28b83252e150155b8b8c65b612c555e93c8b45f (git)
Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < 09baf460dfba79ee6a0c72e68ccdbbba84d894df (git)
Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < 228da1fa124470606ac19783e551f9d51a1e01b0 (git)
Affected: da3cec35dd3c31d8706db4bf379372ce70d92118 , < 79597c8bf64ca99eab385115743131d260339da5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.28
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.28 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.322 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.291 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.13 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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