CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-23006
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-03-01
- 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 5.15.13, drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_domain.c misinterprets the mlx5_get_uars_page return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.15.13)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.13 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6b8b42585886c59a008015083282aae434349094 Patch
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.13 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6b8b42585886c59a008015083282aae434349094 Patch