CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53250
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:
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e126e97c961f7a93823795c879d7c085fe5098 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d0492d1d934642bdfd2057acc1b56f4b57be465 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4fe158259fb5fead52ff2b55841ec5c39492604 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e851996b32264e78a10863c2ac41a8689d7b9252 Patch