CVE-2023-53005 (GCVE-0-2023-53005)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:43 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:36
VLAI
Title
trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field'
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field' Function 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at trace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have to check it to avoid null pointer dereference. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 20:08 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6843 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3 , < d2d1ada58e7cc100b8d7d6b082d19321ba4a700a (git)
Affected: 30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3 , < 31b2414abeaa6de0490e85164badc6dcb1bb8ec9 (git)
Affected: 30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3 , < 886aa449235f478e262bbd5dcdee6ed6bc202949 (git)
Affected: 30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3 , < 592ba7116fa620425725ff0972691f352ba3caf6 (git)
Affected: 30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3 , < b4e7e81b4fdfcf457daee6b7a61769f62198d840 (git)
Affected: 30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3 , < 8b152e9150d07a885f95e1fd401fc81af202d9a4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.272 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.231 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.166 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.91 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.9 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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