Bug 2266363 (CVE-2023-52473)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-52473 kernel: NULL pointer dereference in zone registration error path | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Rohit Keshri <rkeshri> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | acaringi, allarkin, aquini, bhu, chwhite, cye, cyin, dbohanno, debarbos, dfreiber, drow, dvlasenk, esandeen, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mleitner, mmilgram, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel-6.6.14, kernel-6.7.2 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
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is a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, specifically within the thermal management subsystem. This vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference that occurs in the thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() function during the thermal zone registration error path. This issue can cause crashes and system instability.
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| Bug Depends On: | 2266368 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 2266208 | ||
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2266368] This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.6.14 stable kernel updates. The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2023-52473 is: CHECK Maybe valid. Check manually. with impact MODERATE (that is approximation based on flags NULLPTR ; these flags parsed automatically based on patche data). Such automatic check happens only for Low/Moderates (and only when not from reporter, but parsing already existing CVE). Highs always checked manually (I check it myself and then we check it again in Remediation team). In rare cases some of the Moderates could be increased to High later. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2024:9315 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315 |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: core: Fix NULL pointer dereference in zone registration error path If device_register() in thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() returns an error, the tz variable is set to NULL and subsequently dereferenced in kfree(tz->tzp). Commit adc8749b150c ("thermal/drivers/core: Use put_device() if device_register() fails") added the tz = NULL assignment in question to avoid a possible double-free after dropping the reference to the zone device. However, after commit 4649620d9404 ("thermal: core: Make thermal_zone_device_unregister() return after freeing the zone"), that assignment has become redundant, because dropping the reference to the zone device does not cause the zone object to be freed any more. Drop it to address the NULL pointer dereference. https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02871710b93058eb1249d5847c0b2d1c2c3c98ae https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/335176dd8ebaca6493807dceea33c478305667fa