thermal: core: Fix NULL pointer dereference in zone registration error path (Linux Linux)

CVE-2023-52473
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 20 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: core: Fix NULL pointer dereference in zone registration error path If device_register() in thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() returns an error, the tz variable is set to NULL and subsequently dereferenced in kfree(tz->tzp). Commit adc8749b150c ("thermal/drivers/core: Use put_device() if device_register() fails") added the tz = NULL assignment in question to avoid a possible double-free after dropping the reference to the zone device. However, after commit 4649620d9404 ("thermal: core: Make thermal_zone_device_unregister() return after freeing the zone"), that assignment has become redundant, because dropping the reference to the zone device does not cause the zone object to be freed any more. Drop it to address the NULL pointer dereference.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 3d439b1a2ad36c8b4ea151c8de25309d60d17407 < 335176dd8ebaca6493807dceea33c478305667fa ; affected 3d439b1a2ad36c8b4ea151c8de25309d60d17407 < 02871710b93058eb1249d5847c0b2d1c2c3c98ae ; affected 3d439b1a2ad36c8b4ea151c8de25309d60d17407 < 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.4 ; unaffected 0 < 6.4 ; unaffected 6.6.14 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.7.2 ≤ 6.7.* ; unaffected 6.8 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD