# 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-2023-52863"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:31:55.198Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:34:29.027Z"
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-2023-52863"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52863.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52863"
title: "hwmon: (axi-fan-control) Fix possible NULL pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwmon: (axi-fan-control) Fix possible NULL pointer dereference\n\naxi_fan_control_irq_handler(), dependent on the private\naxi_fan_control_data structure, might be called before the hwmon\ndevice is registered. That will cause an \"Unable to handle kernel\nNULL pointer dereference\" error."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8412b410fa5e1e494a0fec84c3c462d49870d3f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d870088db4863c514a7f8751cd593751983029a"},{"version":"8412b410fa5e1e494a0fec84c3c462d49870d3f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3e7eb23a6e97642ff3190431c06475d9ca1e062"},{"version":"8412b410fa5e1e494a0fec84c3c462d49870d3f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33de53a2706066d526173dc743faf43d92c62105"},{"version":"8412b410fa5e1e494a0fec84c3c462d49870d3f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f62b8969847850ba7596cb145cc47c65ea57dae0"},{"version":"8412b410fa5e1e494a0fec84c3c462d49870d3f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c49f14cc1bb12c625a1c572e8a95b6adefd4d8eb"},{"version":"8412b410fa5e1e494a0fec84c3c462d49870d3f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a5b3370a1d9750eca325292e291c8c7cb8cf2e0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.201","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.139","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.63","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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