CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-54066
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: dvb-usb-v2: gl861: Fix null-ptr-deref in gl861_i2c_master_xfer
In gl861_i2c_master_xfer, msg is controlled by user. When msg[i].buf
is null and msg[i].len is zero, former checks on msg[i].buf would be
passed. Malicious data finally reach gl861_i2c_master_xfer. If accessing
msg[i].buf[0] without sanity check, null ptr deref would happen.
We add check on msg[i].len to prevent crash.
Similar commit:
commit 0ed554fd769a
("media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer()")
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a33fc57133d6f39d62285df6706aeb1714967f1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/578b67614ae0e4fba3945b66a4c8f9ae77115bcb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72af676551efe820e309a6c7681c2c4372f37376 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b97719a66970601cd3151a3e2020f4454a1c4ff6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfcd3c010209927b9f45b860f046635dc32e32e1 git.kernel.org