CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53480
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset_register()
When I register a kset in the following way:
static struct kset my_kset;
kobject_set_name(&my_kset.kobj, "my_kset");
ret = kset_register(&my_kset);
A null pointer dereference exception is occurred:
[ 4453.568337] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at \
virtual address 0000000000000028
... ...
[ 4453.810361] Call trace:
[ 4453.813062] kobject_get_ownership+0xc/0x34
[ 4453.817493] kobject_add_internal+0x98/0x274
[ 4453.822005] kset_register+0x5c/0xb4
[ 4453.825820] my_kobj_init+0x44/0x1000 [my_kset]
... ...
Because I didn't initialize my_kset.kobj.ktype.
According to the description in Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst:
- A ktype is the type of object that embeds a kobject. Every structure
that embeds a kobject needs a corresponding ktype.
So add sanity check to make sure kset->kobj.ktype is not NULL.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19 < 4.19.295)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.257)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.197)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.133)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.55)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/039ec9db2d30032eafa365f5f89b30eca5322b05 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a772881bc059c596d8ca587cbd2a233edce3d3b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48aebbe801e78a8932404c122ed0e880ccedc220 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d0fe8c52bb3029d83e323c961221156ab98680b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5df5829158513134ddcaf2184d9286eda7b0bb18 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/964e025ceefdf75da46b0133d0c2790de451aeec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3f6bf22a4f5ba649cf26ae4670de5c7f861bdef Patch