CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53005

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-03-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-03-27
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
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, the following vulnerability has been resolved: trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field' Function 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at trace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have to check it to avoid null pointer dereference. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.17 < 4.19.272) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.231) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.166) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.91) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.9) • linux linux kernel 6.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References