CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53658

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-07 Modified 2026-10-28 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-07
Last modified
2026-10-28
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: spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available If neither a "hif_mspi" nor "mspi" resource is present, the driver will just early exit in probe but still return success. Apart from not doing anything meaningful, this would then also lead to a null pointer access on removal, as platform_get_drvdata() would return NULL, which it would then try to dereference when trying to unregister the spi master. Fix this by unconditionally calling devm_ioremap_resource(), as it can handle a NULL res and will then return a viable ERR_PTR() if we get one. The "return 0;" was previously a "goto qspi_resource_err;" where then ret was returned, but since ret was still initialized to 0 at this place this was a valid conversion in 63c5395bb7a9 ("spi: bcm-qspi: Fix use-after-free on unbind"). The issue was not introduced by this commit, only made more obvious.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 4.14.322) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.291) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.251) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.188) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.121) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.39) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References