CVE-2023-52809

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

21/05/2024

Last modified:

24/05/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: libfc: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in fc_lport_ptp_setup() fc_lport_ptp_setup() did not check the return value of fc_rport_create() which can return NULL and would cause a NULL pointer dereference. Address this issue by checking return value of fc_rport_create() and log error message on fc_rport_create() failed.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		4.14.331 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.300 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.262 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.202 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.140 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.64 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.5.13 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.6 (including)	6.6.3 (excluding)

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CVE-2023-52809

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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