CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2023-52693
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: video: check for error while searching for backlight device parent
If acpi_get_parent() called in acpi_video_dev_register_backlight()
fails, for example, because acpi_ut_acquire_mutex() fails inside
acpi_get_parent), this can lead to incorrect (uninitialized)
acpi_parent handle being passed to acpi_get_pci_dev() for detecting
the parent pci device.
Check acpi_get_parent() result and set parent device only in case of success.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e3a2b9b4039bb4d136dca59fb31e06465e056f3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2124c5bc22948fc4d09a23db4a8acdccc7d21e95
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39af144b6d01d9b40f52e5d773e653957e6c379c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a370502a5681986f9828e43be75ce26c6ab24af
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/556f02699d33c1f40b1b31bd25828ce08fa165d8