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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53166"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:03:55.131Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:32.976Z"
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-2023-53166"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53166.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53166"
title: "power: supply: bq25890: Fix external_power_changed race"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npower: supply: bq25890: Fix external_power_changed race\n\nbq25890_charger_external_power_changed() dereferences bq-\u003echarger,\nwhich gets sets in bq25890_power_supply_init() like this:\n\n  bq-\u003echarger = devm_power_supply_register(bq-\u003edev, &bq-\u003edesc, &psy_cfg);\n\nAs soon as devm_power_supply_register() has called device_add()\nthe external_power_changed callback can get called. So there is a window\nwhere bq25890_charger_external_power_changed() may get called while\nbq-\u003echarger has not been set yet leading to a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nThis race hits during boot sometimes on a Lenovo Yoga Book 1 yb1-x90f\nwhen the cht_wcove_pwrsrc (extcon) power_supply is done with detecting\nthe connected charger-type which happens to exactly hit the small window:\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\n  \u003csnip\u003e\n  RIP: 0010:__power_supply_is_supplied_by+0xb/0xb0\n  \u003csnip\u003e\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   __power_supply_get_supplier_property+0x19/0x50\n   class_for_each_device+0xb1/0xe0\n   power_supply_get_property_from_supplier+0x2e/0x50\n   bq25890_charger_external_power_changed+0x38/0x1b0 [bq25890_charger]\n   __power_supply_changed_work+0x30/0x40\n   class_for_each_device+0xb1/0xe0\n   power_supply_changed_work+0x5f/0xe0\n  \u003csnip\u003e\n\nFixing this is easy. The external_power_changed callback gets passed\nthe power_supply which will eventually get stored in bq-\u003echarger,\nso bq25890_charger_external_power_changed() can simply directly use\nthe passed in psy argument which is always valid."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"eab25b4f93aa771728127705eb4b235a3b5aad94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72c28207c19c2c46fab8ae994aff25e197fb2949"},{"version":"eab25b4f93aa771728127705eb4b235a3b5aad94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d20fa1982c35697f3f8c4ae0f12791691ae5958"},{"version":"eab25b4f93aa771728127705eb4b235a3b5aad94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"029a443b9b6424170f00f6dd5b7682e682cce92e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.3.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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