CVE-2023-52686 (GCVE-0-2023-52686)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-17 14:24 – Updated: 2025-05-04 07:41
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Title
powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_event_init()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_event_init() kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure.
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Linux Linux Affected: 2717a33d60745f2f72e521cdaedf79b00f66f8ca , < 8422d179cf46889c15ceff9ede48c5bfa4e7f0b4 (git)
Affected: 2717a33d60745f2f72e521cdaedf79b00f66f8ca , < e93d7cf4c1ddbcd846739e7ad849f955a4f18031 (git)
Affected: 2717a33d60745f2f72e521cdaedf79b00f66f8ca , < e6ad05e3ae9c84c5a71d7bb2d44dc845ae7990cf (git)
Affected: 2717a33d60745f2f72e521cdaedf79b00f66f8ca , < c0b111ea786ddcc8be0682612830796ece9436c7 (git)
Affected: 2717a33d60745f2f72e521cdaedf79b00f66f8ca , < 9a523e1da6d88c2034f946adfa4f74b236c95ca9 (git)
Affected: 2717a33d60745f2f72e521cdaedf79b00f66f8ca , < a14c55eb461d630b836f80591d8caf1f74e62877 (git)
Affected: 2717a33d60745f2f72e521cdaedf79b00f66f8ca , < e08c2e275fa1874de945b87093f925997722ee42 (git)
Affected: 2717a33d60745f2f72e521cdaedf79b00f66f8ca , < 8649829a1dd25199bbf557b2621cedb4bf9b3050 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.306 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.268 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.209 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.148 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.75 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.14 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.2 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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