CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-52449

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-02-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-02-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: Fix gluebi NULL pointer dereference caused by ftl notifier If both ftl.ko and gluebi.ko are loaded, the notifier of ftl triggers NULL pointer dereference when trying to access ‘gluebi->desc’ in gluebi_read(). ubi_gluebi_init ubi_register_volume_notifier ubi_enumerate_volumes ubi_notify_all gluebi_notify nb->notifier_call() gluebi_create mtd_device_register mtd_device_parse_register add_mtd_device blktrans_notify_add not->add() ftl_add_mtd tr->add_mtd() scan_header mtd_read mtd_read_oob mtd_read_oob_std gluebi_read mtd->read() gluebi->desc - NULL Detailed reproduction information available at the Link [1], In the normal case, obtain gluebi->desc in the gluebi_get_device(), and access gluebi->desc in the gluebi_read(). However, gluebi_get_device() is not executed in advance in the ftl_add_mtd() process, which leads to NULL pointer dereference. The solution for the gluebi module is to run jffs2 on the UBI volume without considering working with ftl or mtdblock [2]. Therefore, this problem can be avoided by preventing gluebi from creating the mtdblock device after creating mtd partition of the type MTD_UBIVOLUME.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.31 < 4.19.306) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.268) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5.0 < 5.10.209) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11.0 < 5.15.148) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16.0 < 6.1.75) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2.0 < 6.6.14) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7.0 < 6.7.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References