CVE-2023-52893 (GCVE-0-2023-52893)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-21 06:10
Modified
2025-05-04 07:45
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307
Version: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307
Version: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307
Version: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307
Version: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307
Version: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307
Version: 74c5b31c6618f01079212332b2e5f6c42f2d6307
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