CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-22999
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-02-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel before 5.16.3, drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c misinterprets the dwc3_qcom_create_urs_usb_platdev return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.16.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.3 Release Notes
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b52fe2dbb3e655eb1483000adfab68a219549e13 Patch
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.3 Release Notes
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b52fe2dbb3e655eb1483000adfab68a219549e13 Patch