gsmi: fix null-deref in gsmi_get_variable (Linux Linux)

CVE-2023-52893
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gsmi: fix null-deref in gsmi_get_variable We can get EFI variables without fetching the attribute, so we must allow for that in gsmi. commit 859748255b43 ("efi: pstore: Omit efivars caching EFI varstore access layer") added a new get_variable call with attr=NULL, which triggers panic in gsmi.

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 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 < ee5763ef829bd923033510de6d1df7c73f085e4b ; affected 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 < 32313c11bdc8a02c577abaf865be3664ab30410a ; affected 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 < ffef77794fb5f1245c3249b86342bad2299accb5 ; affected 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 < ae2a9dcc8caa60b1e14671294e5ec902ea5d1dfd ; affected 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 < eb0421d90f916dffe96b4c049ddf01c0c50620d2 ; affected 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307 < 6646d769fdb0ce4318ef9afd127f8526d1ca8393
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.0 ; unaffected 0 < 3.0 ; unaffected 4.14.304 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.271 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.230 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.165 ≤ 5.10.*

Sources

SourceLicence
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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