CVE-2023-53275 (GCVE-0-2023-53275)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 08:11 – Updated: 2026-01-14 18:12
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Title
ALSA: hda: fix a possible null-pointer dereference due to data race in snd_hdac_regmap_sync()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: fix a possible null-pointer dereference due to data race in snd_hdac_regmap_sync() The variable codec->regmap is often protected by the lock codec->regmap_lock when is accessed. However, it is accessed without holding the lock when is accessed in snd_hdac_regmap_sync(): if (codec->regmap) In my opinion, this may be a harmful race, because if codec->regmap is set to NULL right after the condition is checked, a null-pointer dereference can occur in the called function regcache_sync(): map->lock(map->lock_arg); --> Line 360 in drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c To fix this possible null-pointer dereference caused by data race, the mutex_lock coverage is extended to protect the if statement as well as the function call to regcache_sync(). [ Note: the lack of the regmap_lock itself is harmless for the current codec driver implementations, as snd_hdac_regmap_sync() is only for PM runtime resume that is prohibited during the codec probe. But the change makes the whole code more consistent, so it's merged as is -- tiwai ]
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 69d5dc286d05441ca2f854ae8df11201f6f9b706 , < 109f0aaa0b8838a88af9125b79579023539300a7 (git)
Affected: 1a462be52f4505a2719631fb5aa7bfdbd37bfd8d , < 9f9eed451176ffcac6b5ba0f6dae1a6b4a1cb0eb (git)
Affected: 1a462be52f4505a2719631fb5aa7bfdbd37bfd8d , < 8703b26387e1fa4f8749db98d24c67617b873acb (git)
Affected: 1a462be52f4505a2719631fb5aa7bfdbd37bfd8d , < cdd412b528dee6e0851c4735d6676ec138da13a4 (git)
Affected: 1a462be52f4505a2719631fb5aa7bfdbd37bfd8d , < b32e40379e5b2814de0c4bc199edc2d82317dc07 (git)
Affected: 1a462be52f4505a2719631fb5aa7bfdbd37bfd8d , < 1f4a08fed450db87fbb5ff5105354158bdbe1a22 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.255 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.192 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.128 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.47 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.12 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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