CVE-2026-43160

The vulnerability CVE-2026-43160 concerns the Linux kernel’s mfd: macsmc driver, where a mutex in struct apple_smc was not initialized in apple_smc_probe(). An uninitialized mutex can lead to occasional NULL pointer dereferences in apple_smc_read() invoked by probe() paths of subdevices. A patch ...

CVE-2026-43160 mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex Initialize struct applesmc's mutex in applesmcprobe. Using the mutex uninitialized surprisingly resulted only in occasional NULL pointer dereferences in applesmcread calls from the probe functions of...