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CVE-2023-53472

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pwm: lpc32xx: Remove handling of PWM channels Because LPC32xx PWM controllers have only a s…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pwm: lpc32xx: Remove handling of PWM channels Because LPC32xx PWM controllers have only a single output which is registered as the only PWM device/channel per controller, it is known in advance that pwm->hwpwm value is always 0. On basis of this fact simplify the code by removing operations with pwm->hwpwm, there is no controls which require channel number as input. Even though I wasn't aware at the time when I forward ported that patch, this fixes a null pointer dereference as lpc32xx->chip.pwms is NULL before devm_pwmchip_add() is called.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 4.9.284 before 4.10
from 4.14.248 before 4.14.326
from 4.19.208 before 4.19.295
from 5.4.149 before 5.4.257
from 5.10.69 before 5.10.195
from 5.14.8 before 5.15.132

Weakness classification

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