Bug 2363733 (CVE-2023-53139)

Summary: CVE-2023-53139 kernel: nfc: fdp: add null check of devm_kmalloc_array in fdp_nci_i2c_read_device_properties
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-02 16:03:38 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfc: fdp: add null check of devm_kmalloc_array in fdp_nci_i2c_read_device_properties

devm_kmalloc_array may fails, *fw_vsc_cfg might be null and cause
out-of-bounds write in device_property_read_u8_array later.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 06:54:43 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050237-CVE-2023-53139-6557@gregkh/T