# 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-2023-53472"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:41.951Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:29:04.344Z"
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-2023-53472"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53472.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53472"
title: "pwm: lpc32xx: Remove handling of PWM channels"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npwm: lpc32xx: Remove handling of PWM channels\n\nBecause LPC32xx PWM controllers have only a single output which is\nregistered as the only PWM device/channel per controller, it is known in\nadvance that pwm-\u003ehwpwm value is always 0. On basis of this fact\nsimplify the code by removing operations with pwm-\u003ehwpwm, there is no\ncontrols which require channel number as input.\n\nEven though I wasn't aware at the time when I forward ported that patch,\nthis fixes a null pointer dereference as lpc32xx-\u003echip.pwms is NULL\nbefore devm_pwmchip_add() is called."
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