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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53275"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:11:10.475Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:28:25.281Z"
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-2023-53275"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53275.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53275"
title: "ALSA: hda: fix a possible null-pointer dereference due to data race in snd_hdac_regmap_sync()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: hda: fix a possible null-pointer dereference due to data race in snd_hdac_regmap_sync()\n\nThe variable codec-\u003eregmap is often protected by the lock\ncodec-\u003eregmap_lock when is accessed. However, it is accessed without\nholding the lock when is accessed in snd_hdac_regmap_sync():\n\n  if (codec-\u003eregmap)\n\nIn my opinion, this may be a harmful race, because if codec-\u003eregmap is\nset to NULL right after the condition is checked, a null-pointer\ndereference can occur in the called function regcache_sync():\n\n  map-\u003elock(map-\u003elock_arg); --\u003e Line 360 in drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c\n\nTo fix this possible null-pointer dereference caused by data race, the\nmutex_lock coverage is extended to protect the if statement as well as the\nfunction call to regcache_sync().\n\n[ Note: the lack of the regmap_lock itself is harmless for the current\n  codec driver implementations, as snd_hdac_regmap_sync() is only for\n  PM runtime resume that is prohibited during the codec probe.\n  But the change makes the whole code more consistent, so it's merged\n  as is -- tiwai ]"
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