Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-3355 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel's drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c code in the submit_lookup_cmds function, which fails because it lacks a check of the return value of kmalloc(). This issue allows a local user to crash the system.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3355
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3355
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217820
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217820
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d839f0811a31322c087a859c2b181e2383daa7be
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d839f0811a31322c087a859c2b181e2383daa7be