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CVE-2023-53480 (GCVE-0-2023-53480)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:45
VLAI
Title
kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset_register()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset_register() When I register a kset in the following way: static struct kset my_kset; kobject_set_name(&my_kset.kobj, "my_kset"); ret = kset_register(&my_kset); A null pointer dereference exception is occurred: [ 4453.568337] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at \ virtual address 0000000000000028 ... ... [ 4453.810361] Call trace: [ 4453.813062] kobject_get_ownership+0xc/0x34 [ 4453.817493] kobject_add_internal+0x98/0x274 [ 4453.822005] kset_register+0x5c/0xb4 [ 4453.825820] my_kobj_init+0x44/0x1000 [my_kset] ... ... Because I didn't initialize my_kset.kobj.ktype. According to the description in Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst: - A ktype is the type of object that embeds a kobject. Every structure that embeds a kobject needs a corresponding ktype. So add sanity check to make sure kset->kobj.ktype is not NULL.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7 , < 039ec9db2d30032eafa365f5f89b30eca5322b05 (git)
Affected: 5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7 , < 964e025ceefdf75da46b0133d0c2790de451aeec (git)
Affected: 5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7 , < 5df5829158513134ddcaf2184d9286eda7b0bb18 (git)
Affected: 5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7 , < f3f6bf22a4f5ba649cf26ae4670de5c7f861bdef (git)
Affected: 5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7 , < 48aebbe801e78a8932404c122ed0e880ccedc220 (git)
Affected: 5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7 , < 1a772881bc059c596d8ca587cbd2a233edce3d3b (git)
Affected: 5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7 , < 4d0fe8c52bb3029d83e323c961221156ab98680b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.295 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.257 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.197 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.133 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.55 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.5 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2023/cve-2023-53480.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.