Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53807

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-09 00:01:05
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:51:53
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: clocking-wizard: Fix Oops in clk_wzrd_register_divider() Smatch detected this potential error pointer dereference clk_wzrd_register_divider(). If devm_clk_hw_register() fails then it sets "hw" to an error pointer and then dereferences it on the next line. Return the error directly instead.