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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23332"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:27:23.193Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:04:48.876Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23332"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23332.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23332"
title: "cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix crash during turbo disable"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix crash during turbo disable\n\nWhen the system is booted with kernel command line argument \"nosmt\" or\n\"maxcpus\" to limit the number of CPUs, disabling turbo via:\n\n echo 1 \u003e /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo\n\nresults in a crash:\n\n PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 0 P4D 0\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n ...\n RIP: 0010:store_no_turbo+0x100/0x1f0\n ...\n\nThis occurs because for_each_possible_cpu() returns CPUs even if they\nare not online. For those CPUs, all_cpu_data[] will be NULL. Since\ncommit 973207ae3d7c (\"cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange max frequency\nupdates handling code\"), all_cpu_data[] is dereferenced even for CPUs\nwhich are not online, causing the NULL pointer dereference.\n\nTo fix that, pass CPU number to intel_pstate_update_max_freq() and use\nall_cpu_data[] for those CPUs for which there is a valid cpufreq policy."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"973207ae3d7c3c92df4a382df5d7bd695deaa904","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a1850e2aef4d15405e7ff53fd51c4b3124d46182"},{"version":"973207ae3d7c3c92df4a382df5d7bd695deaa904","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d20d48916ce8531b157c2edeba76d69af2974270"},{"version":"973207ae3d7c3c92df4a382df5d7bd695deaa904","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b050482ec40569429d963ac52afa878691b04c9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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