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GHSA-MXPQ-5WM8-VG9V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-02-22 18:30 – Updated: 2024-03-18 21:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue in upi_fill_topology()

Get logical socket id instead of physical id in discover_upi_topology() to avoid out-of-bound access on 'upi = &type->topology[nid][idx];' line that leads to NULL pointer dereference in upi_fill_topology()

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-52450 (GCVE-0-2023-52450)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-22 16:21 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:27

Title

perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue in upi_fill_topology()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue in upi_fill_topology() Get logical socket id instead of physical id in discover_upi_topology() to avoid out-of-bound access on 'upi = &type->topology[nid][idx];' line that leads to NULL pointer dereference in upi_fill_topology()

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:02 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6820 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6f4a78b104c65e4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1692cf434ba13ee21…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: f680b6e6062ef3c944ffc966d685f067958fca33 , < bf1bf09e6b599758851457f3999779622a48d015 (git) Affected: f680b6e6062ef3c944ffc966d685f067958fca33 , < 3d6f4a78b104c65e4256c3776c9949f49a1b459e (git) Affected: f680b6e6062ef3c944ffc966d685f067958fca33 , < 1692cf434ba13ee212495b5af795b6a07e986ce4 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.2 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.14 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.7.2 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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