CVE-2023-54189 (GCVE-0-2023-54189)
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: pstore/ram: Add check for kstrdup Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
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Linux Linux Version: c617a3b777b92a0e80ceff2dffaae9350d4c3850
Version: e163fdb3f7f8c62dccf194f3f37a7bcb3c333aa8
Version: e163fdb3f7f8c62dccf194f3f37a7bcb3c333aa8
Version: e163fdb3f7f8c62dccf194f3f37a7bcb3c333aa8
Version: e163fdb3f7f8c62dccf194f3f37a7bcb3c333aa8
Version: e163fdb3f7f8c62dccf194f3f37a7bcb3c333aa8
Version: e163fdb3f7f8c62dccf194f3f37a7bcb3c333aa8
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