CVE-2023-53856
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: overlay: Call of_changeset_init() early
When of_overlay_fdt_apply() fails, the changeset may be partially
applied, and the caller is still expected to call of_overlay_remove() to
clean up this partial state.
However, of_overlay_apply() calls of_resolve_phandles() before
init_overlay_changeset(). Hence if the overlay fails to apply due to an
unresolved symbol, the overlay_changeset.cset.entries list is still
uninitialized, and cleanup will crash with a NULL-pointer dereference in
overlay_removal_is_ok().
Fix this by moving the call to of_changeset_init() from
init_overlay_changeset() to of_overlay_fdt_apply(), where all other
early initialization is done.
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01bb96ad38089f5cc6de7746dac13437d35eb1dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fb210cd521c9efcb211e9f5ce40fc907200bf13
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9515ff4fb142b690a0d2b58782b15903b990dba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be86241bf5d1efd16d8a7231c13b33459c5d755d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c403c81b577a67fe9ec6a2e89d143256487be50f