CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53244
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- 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:
media: pci: tw68: Fix null-ptr-deref bug in buf prepare and finish
When the driver calls tw68_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the
function call dma_alloc_coherent may fail, resulting in a empty buffer
buf->cpu. Later when we free the buffer or access the buffer, null ptr
deref is triggered.
This bug is similar to the following one:
https://git.linuxtv.org/media_stage.git/commit/?id=2b064d91440b33fba5b452f2d1b31f13ae911d71.
We believe the bug can be also dynamically triggered from user side.
Similarly, we fix this by checking the return value of tw68_risc_buffer()
and the value of buf->cpu before buffer free.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.15.113)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.30)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.3.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1634b7adcc5bef645b3666fdd564e5952a9e24e0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3715c5e9a8f96b6ed0dcbea06da443efccac1ecc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c67f49a6643d973e83968ea35806c7b5ae68b56 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcf632bca424e6ff8c8eb89c96694e7f05cd29b6 Patch