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CVE-2026-43160

mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex Initialize struct apple_smc's mutex in apple_smc_probe(). Using the mutex uninitialized surprisingly resulted only in occasional NULL pointer dereferences in apple_smc_read() calls from the probe() functions of sub devices.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected e038d985c9823a12cd64fa077d0c5aca2c644b67 before a1e9e299c0d9ea42ab1067b39fb72e976d3f1bdb; affected e038d985c9823a12cd64fa077d0c5aca2c644b67 before 2d5932588f029f7787f52c29174fead9bbc6b2cf; affected e038d985c9823a12cd64fa077d0c5aca2c644b67 before 414f65d6736342c77d4ec5e7373039f4a09250dd
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.17; unaffected 0 before 6.17; unaffected 6.18.16 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.6 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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