CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53658
5.5 MEDIUM
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/217b6ea8cf7b819477bca597a6ae2d43d38ba283 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22ae32d80ef590d12a2364e4621f90f7c58445c7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b9c8f7892c19f7f5c9fed5fb410b9fd5990bb6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/398e6a015877d44327f754aeb48ff3354945c78c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c1f23ad34fcdace50275a6aa1e1969b41c6233f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a91c34357afcfaa5307e254f22a8452550a07b34 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d20db3c58a7f9361e370a7850ceb60dbdf62eea3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3dcdb43c872a3b967345144151a2c9bb9124c9b Patch