CVE-2023-54178 (GCVE-0-2023-54178)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-30 12:08
Modified
2025-12-30 12:08
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: unittest: fix null pointer dereferencing in of_unittest_find_node_by_name() when kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(), name or full_name will be NULL, strcmp() will cause null pointer dereference.
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Linux Linux Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
Version: 0d638a07d3a1e98a7598eb2812a6236324e4c55f
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