CVE-2023-53658

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
07/10/2025
Last modified:
03/02/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available<br /> <br /> If neither a "hif_mspi" nor "mspi" resource is present, the driver will<br /> just early exit in probe but still return success. Apart from not doing<br /> anything meaningful, this would then also lead to a null pointer access<br /> on removal, as platform_get_drvdata() would return NULL, which it would<br /> then try to dereference when trying to unregister the spi master.<br /> <br /> Fix this by unconditionally calling devm_ioremap_resource(), as it can<br /> handle a NULL res and will then return a viable ERR_PTR() if we get one.<br /> <br /> The "return 0;" was previously a "goto qspi_resource_err;" where then<br /> ret was returned, but since ret was still initialized to 0 at this place<br /> this was a valid conversion in 63c5395bb7a9 ("spi: bcm-qspi: Fix<br /> use-after-free on unbind"). The issue was not introduced by this commit,<br /> only made more obvious.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.9 (including) 4.14.322 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.15 (including) 4.19.291 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.20 (including) 5.4.251 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.5 (including) 5.10.188 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.11 (including) 5.15.121 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.16 (including) 6.1.39 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.2 (including) 6.4.4 (excluding)