Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-52893 - 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
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee5763ef829bd923033510de6d1df7c73f085e4b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32313c11bdc8a02c577abaf865be3664ab30410a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffef77794fb5f1245c3249b86342bad2299accb5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae2a9dcc8caa60b1e14671294e5ec902ea5d1dfd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb0421d90f916dffe96b4c049ddf01c0c50620d2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6646d769fdb0ce4318ef9afd127f8526d1ca8393
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a769b05eeed7accc4019a1ed9799dd72067f1ce8