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FKIE_CVE-2023-52696

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-17 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:43
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_powercap_init() kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69f95c5e9220f77ce7c540686b056c2b49e9a664Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b58d16037217d0c64a2a09b655f370403ec7219Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9da4a56dd3772570512ca58aa8832b052ae910dcPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a67a04ad05acb56640798625e73fa54d6d41cce1Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b02ecc35d01a76b4235e008d2dd292895b28ecabPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e123015c0ba859cf48aa7f89c5016cc6e98e018dPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f152a6bfd187f67afeffc9fd68cbe46f51439be0Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69f95c5e9220f77ce7c540686b056c2b49e9a664Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b58d16037217d0c64a2a09b655f370403ec7219Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9da4a56dd3772570512ca58aa8832b052ae910dcPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a67a04ad05acb56640798625e73fa54d6d41cce1Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b02ecc35d01a76b4235e008d2dd292895b28ecabPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e123015c0ba859cf48aa7f89c5016cc6e98e018dPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f152a6bfd187f67afeffc9fd68cbe46f51439be0Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
debian debian_linux 10.0
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Taxonomy of the tags.





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.