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CVE-2023-52893 (GCVE-0-2023-52893)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-21 06:10 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:35
VLAI
Title
gsmi: fix null-deref in gsmi_get_variable
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gsmi: fix null-deref in gsmi_get_variable We can get EFI variables without fetching the attribute, so we must allow for that in gsmi. commit 859748255b43 ("efi: pstore: Omit efivars caching EFI varstore access layer") added a new get_variable call with attr=NULL, which triggers panic in gsmi.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:03 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 , < ee5763ef829bd923033510de6d1df7c73f085e4b (git)
Affected: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 , < 32313c11bdc8a02c577abaf865be3664ab30410a (git)
Affected: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 , < ffef77794fb5f1245c3249b86342bad2299accb5 (git)
Affected: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 , < ae2a9dcc8caa60b1e14671294e5ec902ea5d1dfd (git)
Affected: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 , < eb0421d90f916dffe96b4c049ddf01c0c50620d2 (git)
Affected: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 , < 6646d769fdb0ce4318ef9afd127f8526d1ca8393 (git)
Affected: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 , < a769b05eeed7accc4019a1ed9799dd72067f1ce8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.304 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.271 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.230 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.165 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.90 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.8 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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