CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53292
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- 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:
blk-mq: fix NULL dereference on q->elevator in blk_mq_elv_switch_none
After grabbing q->sysfs_lock, q->elevator may become NULL because of
elevator switch.
Fix the NULL dereference on q->elevator by checking it with lock.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.4.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/245165658e1c9f95c0fecfe02b9b1ebd30a1198a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e977386521b71471e66ec2ba82efdfcc456adf2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/988ddb77218d3975dd13dee7bb0e1fae098a9fdb git.kernel.org
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