# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52693"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-17T14:27:26.514Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:31:49.523Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52693"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52693.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52693"
title: "ACPI: video: check for error while searching for backlight device parent"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPI: video: check for error while searching for backlight device parent\n\nIf acpi_get_parent() called in acpi_video_dev_register_backlight()\nfails, for example, because acpi_ut_acquire_mutex() fails inside\nacpi_get_parent), this can lead to incorrect (uninitialized)\nacpi_parent handle being passed to acpi_get_pci_dev() for detecting\nthe parent pci device.\n\nCheck acpi_get_parent() result and set parent device only in case of success.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE."
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