CVE-2023-52976
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 5.1.16-5.4.232 - NULL Pointer Dereference in EFI Memory Reservation
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent When iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced without checking it for NULL. This patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in case memremap doesn't succeed. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. [ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0025
EPSS Percentile
16.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (16)
Linux/Linux
< 5.2
Linux/Linux
18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439 - 87d4ff18738fd71e7e3c10827c80257da6283697
Linux/Linux
18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439 - 966d47e1f27c45507c5df82b2a2157e5a4fd3909
Linux/Linux
18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439 - a2e6a9ff89f13666a1c3ff7195612ab949ea9afc
Linux/Linux
18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439 - d8fc0b5fb3e816a4a8684bcd3ed02cbef0fce23c
Linux/Linux
18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439 - d92a25627bcdf264183670da73c9a60c0bac327e
Linux/Linux
5.1.16 - 5.2
Linux/Linux
5.10.168 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.15.93 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.2
... and 6 more
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026