CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2023-53049
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: ucsi: Fix NULL pointer deref in ucsi_connector_change()
When ucsi_init() fails, ucsi->connector is NULL, yet in case of
ucsi_acpi we may still get events which cause the ucs_acpi code to call
ucsi_connector_change(), which then derefs the NULL ucsi->connector
pointer.
Fix this by not setting ucsi->ntfy inside ucsi_init() until ucsi_init()
has succeeded, so that ucsi_connector_change() ignores the events
because UCSI_ENABLE_NTFY_CONNECTOR_CHANGE is not set in the ntfy mask.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c5abcb13491da8c049f20462189c12c753ba978
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dd27aed9c456670b3882877ef17a48195f21693
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ef0423e43f877a328454059d46763043ce3da44
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6adfe9bbd6ac11e398b54ccd99a0f8eea09f3c0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f87fb985452ab2083967103ac00bfd68fb182764