# CVE-2023-53242: thermal/drivers/hisi: Drop second sensor hi3660

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-09-15 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.20

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/hisi: Drop second sensor hi3660 The commit 74c8e6bffbe1 ("driver core: Add __alloc_size hint to devm allocators") exposes a panic "BRK handler: Fatal exception" on the hi3660_thermal_probe funciton. This is because the function allocates memory for only one sensors array entry, but tries to fill up a second one. Fix this by removing the unneeded second access.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cf2181e438f43ed24e12424fe36d156cca233b9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e02bc492883abf751fd1a8d89fc025fbce6744c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5aaf140ab1c02889c088e1b1098adad600541af
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f6756cd09889c7201ee31e6f76fbd914fb0b80d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68e675a9b69cfc34dd915d91a4650e3ee53421f4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15cc25829a97c3957e520e971868aacc84341317

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