CVE-2023-54279 (GCVE-0-2023-54279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:16 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:58
VLAI
Title
MIPS: fw: Allow firmware to pass a empty env
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: fw: Allow firmware to pass a empty env fw_getenv will use env entry to determine style of env, however it is legal for firmware to just pass a empty list. Check if first entry exist before running strchr to avoid null pointer dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7067 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < f334b31625683418aaa2a335470eec950a95a254 (git)
Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < 830181ddced5a05a711dc9da8043203b1f33a77e (git)
Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < 0f91290774c798199ba4b8df93de5c3156b5163d (git)
Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < 47e61cadc7a5f3dffd42d2d6fda81be163f1ab82 (git)
Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < 3ef93b7bd9e042db240843f24a80e14da38c6830 (git)
Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < a6b54af407873227caef6262e992f5422cdcb6ae (git)
Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < ad79828f133e98585ab2236cad04a55eb7141bbe (git)
Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < aeed787bbbbe1b842beec9a065a36c915226f704 (git)
Affected: 14aecdd419217e041fb5dd2749d11f58503bdf62 , < ee1809ed7bc456a72dc8410b475b73021a3a68d5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.315 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.283 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.243 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.180 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.111 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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