FKIE_CVE-2023-53005

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-27 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:44
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field' Function 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at trace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have to check it to avoid null pointer dereference. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31b2414abeaa6de0490e85164badc6dcb1bb8ec9Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/592ba7116fa620425725ff0972691f352ba3caf6Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/886aa449235f478e262bbd5dcdee6ed6bc202949Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b152e9150d07a885f95e1fd401fc81af202d9a4Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4e7e81b4fdfcf457daee6b7a61769f62198d840Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2d1ada58e7cc100b8d7d6b082d19321ba4a700aPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
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