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CVE-2023-52938 (GCVE-0-2023-52938)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:37 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:27
VLAI
Title
usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist This will fix null pointer dereference that was caused by the driver attempting to resume ports that were not yet registered.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:24 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9222912924fcf56e2d166a503eddbdb5ffd2005f , < fdd11d7136fd070b3a74d6d8799d9eac28a57fc5 (git)
Affected: e0dced9c7d4763fd97c86a13902d135f03cc42eb , < f82060da749c611ed427523b6d1605d87338aac1 (git)
Affected: 160416b397c362e37b590040a089604dd1f37de1 (git)
Affected: 6.0.15 , < 6.1 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.1.1 , < 6.1.11 (semver)
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