CVE-2023-53648

Updated on 07 Oct 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 5.4.0 (+15 more)

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.

Fixes