CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53250

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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: firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in dmi_sysfs_register_handle KASAN reported a null-ptr-deref error: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] CPU: 0 PID: 1373 Comm: modprobe Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) RIP: 0010:dmi_sysfs_entry_release ... Call Trace: <TASK> kobject_put dmi_sysfs_register_handle (drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c:540) dmi_sysfs dmi_decode_table (drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:133) dmi_walk (drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:1115) dmi_sysfs_init (drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c:149) dmi_sysfs do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1296) ... Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Kernel Offset: 0x4000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]--- It is because previous patch added kobject_put() to release the memory which will call dmi_sysfs_entry_release() and list_del(). However, list_add_tail(entry->list) is called after the error block, so the list_head is uninitialized and cannot be deleted. Move error handling to after list_add_tail to fix this.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9.318 < 4.10) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.14.283 < 4.15) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.247 < 4.20) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.198 < 5.5) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.122 < 5.11) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.47 < 5.15.99) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.17.15 < 5.18) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.18.4 < 6.1.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References