CVE-2026-43160

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's macsmc driver. This vulnerability occurs because a mutex, a mechanism used to prevent simultaneous access to shared resources, within the struct applesmc is not properly initialized in the applesmcprobe function. An uninitialized mutex can lead to occasional...

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...