Bug 2268295 (CVE-2023-52605)

Summary:	CVE-2023-52605 kernel: ACPI: extlog: fix NULL pointer dereference check
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Zack Miele <zmiele>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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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, sidakwo, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, vsroka, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 4.19.307, kernel 5.4.269, kernel 5.10.210, kernel 5.15.149, kernel 6.1.77, kernel 6.6.16, kernel 6.7.4, kernel 6.8-rc1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	[REJECTED CVE] A NULL pointer dereference issue was identified in the Linux kernel within the ACPI subsystem's extlog module. In the extlog_exit() function, the extlog_l1_addr pointer was dereferenced before verifying if it was NULL, potentially causing system instability or crashes during the cleanup process.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2268296
Bug Blocks:	2268346

Description Zack Miele 2024-03-06 22:06:23 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: extlog: fix NULL pointer dereference check

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52605 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024030647-CVE-2023-52605-292a@gregkh/T

Comment 1 Zack Miele 2024-03-06 22:07:00 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2268296]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2024-03-07 23:57:17 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.7.4 stable kernel updates.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-24 00:37:54 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:7001 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7001

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-24 02:29:30 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:7000 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7000

Comment 8 TEJ RATHI 2024-12-02 11:05:18 UTC

This CVE has been rejected upstream:- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/20240318151025.2952751-2-lee@kernel.org/

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2025-03-11 06:34:40 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:2627 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2627

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2025-03-19 00:41:20 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:3021 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3021