CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-52467

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 26, 2024 | Modified: Apr 17, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mfd: syscon: Fix null pointer dereference in of_syscon_register()

kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 5.9.0 (including) 5.10.209 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.11.0 (including) 5.15.148 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.16.0 (including) 6.1.75 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 6.2.0 (including) 6.6.14 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 6.7.0 (including) 6.7.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References