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CVE-2023-52976mediumCWE-476

efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 82% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent When iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced without checking it for NULL. This patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in case memremap doesn't succeed. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. [ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux