CVE-2023-52938 (GCVE-0-2023-52938)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-27 16:37
Modified
2025-05-04 12:49
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist This will fix null pointer dereference that was caused by the driver attempting to resume ports that were not yet registered.
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Linux Linux Version: 9222912924fcf56e2d166a503eddbdb5ffd2005f
Version: e0dced9c7d4763fd97c86a13902d135f03cc42eb
Version: 160416b397c362e37b590040a089604dd1f37de1
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