CVE-2023-52976

Published Mar 27, 2025

Last updated 7 months ago

Overview

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent When iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced without checking it for NULL. This patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in case memremap doesn't succeed. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. [ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
NVD status
Modified
Products
linux_kernel

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-476
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CWE-476

Social media

Hype score
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