CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53480

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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