Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-23005 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
linux
suse
CWE-476

Summary

In the Linux kernel before 6.2, mm/memory-tiers.c misinterprets the alloc_memory_type return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer). NOTE: this is disputed by third parties because there are no realistic cases in which a user can cause the alloc_memory_type error case to be reached.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
5325
OS
Suse
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)