CVE-2023-52607 (GCVE-0-2023-52607)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-06 06:45
Modified
2026-05-11 19:30
Severity ?
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: powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.
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Linux Linux Version: a0668cdc154e54bf0c85182e0535eea237d53146
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