CVE-2023-53250

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53250
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53250.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53250
Downstream
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
OESA (1)
ROOT (1)
SUSE (5)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
SUSE (5)
Published
2025-09-15T14:46:20Z
Modified
2026-10-20T11:02:38Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in dmi_sysfs_register_handle
Details

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

firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in dmi_sysfs_register_handle

KASAN reported a null-ptr-deref error:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] CPU: 0 PID: 1373 Comm: modprobe Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) RIP: 0010:dmi_sysfs_entry_release ... Call Trace: kobject_put dmi_sysfs_register_handle (drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c:540) dmi_sysfs dmi_decode_table (drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:133) dmi_walk (drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:1115) dmi_sysfs_init (drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c:149) dmi_sysfs do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1296) ... Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Kernel Offset: 0x4000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---

It is because previous patch added kobject_put() to release the memory which will call dmi_sysfs_entry_release() and list_del().

However, list_add_tail(entry->list) is called after the error block, so the list_head is uninitialized and cannot be deleted.

Move error handling to after list_add_tail to fix this.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53250.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
fdffa4ad8f6bf1ece877edfb807f2b2c729d8578
Fixed
b4fe158259fb5fead52ff2b55841ec5c39492604
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
660ba678f9998aca6db74f2dd912fa5124f0fa31
Fixed
e851996b32264e78a10863c2ac41a8689d7b9252
Fixed
5d0492d1d934642bdfd2057acc1b56f4b57be465
Fixed
18e126e97c961f7a93823795c879d7c085fe5098
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.15.47
Fixed
5.15.99
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4.9.318
Fixed
4.10
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4.14.283
Fixed
4.15
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4.19.247
Fixed
4.20
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.4.198
Fixed
5.5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.10.122
Fixed
5.11
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.17.15
Fixed
5.18
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.18.4
Fixed
5.19
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a9bfb37d6ba7c376b0d53337a4c5f5ff324bd725
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
ed38d04342dfbe9e5aca745c8b5eb4188a74f0ef
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c66cc3c62870a27ea8f060a7e4c1ad8d26dd3f0d
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a724634b2a49f6ff0177a9e19a5a92fc1545e1b7
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
985706bd3bbeffc8737bc05965ca8d24837bc7db
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
3ba359ebe914ac3f8c6c832b28007c14c39d3766
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
ec752973aa721ee281d5441e497364637c626c7b

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.14.283
v4.14.284
v4.14.285
v4.14.286
v4.14.287
v4.14.288
v4.14.289
v4.14.290
v4.14.291
v4.14.292
v4.14.293
v4.14.294
v4.14.295
v4.14.296
v4.14.297
v4.14.298
v4.14.299
v4.14.300
v4.14.301
v4.14.302
v4.14.303
v4.14.304
v4.14.305
v4.14.306
v4.14.307
v4.14.308
v4.14.309
v4.14.310
v4.14.311
v4.14.312
v4.14.313
v4.14.314
v4.14.315
v4.14.316
v4.14.317
v4.14.318
v4.14.319
v4.14.320
v4.14.321
v4.14.322
v4.14.323
v4.14.324
v4.14.325
v4.14.326
v4.14.327
v4.14.328
v4.14.329
v4.14.330
v4.14.331
v4.14.332
v4.14.333
v4.14.334
v4.14.335
v4.14.336
v4.19.247
v4.19.248
v4.19.249
v4.19.250
v4.19.251
v4.19.252
v4.19.253
v4.19.254
v4.19.255
v4.19.256
v4.19.257
v4.19.258
v4.19.259
v4.19.260
v4.19.261
v4.19.262
v4.19.263
v4.19.264
v4.19.265
v4.19.266
v4.19.267
v4.19.268
v4.19.269
v4.19.270
v4.19.271
v4.19.272
v4.19.273
v4.19.274
v4.19.275
v4.19.276
v4.19.277
v4.19.278
v4.19.279
v4.19.280
v4.19.281
v4.19.282
v4.19.283
v4.19.284
v4.19.285
v4.19.286
v4.19.287
v4.19.288
v4.19.289
v4.19.290
v4.19.291
v4.19.292
v4.19.293
v4.19.294
v4.19.295
v4.19.296
v4.19.297
v4.19.298
v4.19.299
v4.19.300
v4.19.301
v4.19.302
v4.19.303
v4.19.304
v4.19.305
v4.19.306
v4.19.307
v4.19.308
v4.19.309
v4.19.310
v4.19.311
v4.19.312
v4.19.313
v4.19.314
v4.19.315
v4.19.316
v4.19.317
v4.19.318
v4.19.319
v4.19.320
v4.19.321
v4.19.322
v4.19.323
v4.19.324
v4.19.325
v4.9.318
v4.9.319
v4.9.320
v4.9.321
v4.9.322
v4.9.323
v4.9.324
v4.9.325
v4.9.326
v4.9.327
v4.9.328
v4.9.329
v4.9.330
v4.9.331
v4.9.332
v4.9.333
v4.9.334
v4.9.335
v4.9.336
v4.9.337
v5.*
v5.10.122
v5.10.123
v5.10.124
v5.10.125
v5.10.126
v5.10.127
v5.10.128
v5.10.129
v5.10.130
v5.10.131
v5.10.132
v5.10.133
v5.10.134
v5.10.135
v5.10.136
v5.10.137
v5.10.138
v5.10.139
v5.10.140
v5.10.141
v5.10.142
v5.10.143
v5.10.144
v5.10.145
v5.10.146
v5.10.147
v5.10.148
v5.10.149
v5.10.150
v5.10.151
v5.10.152
v5.10.153
v5.10.154
v5.10.155
v5.10.156
v5.10.157
v5.10.158
v5.10.159
v5.10.160
v5.10.161
v5.10.162
v5.10.163
v5.10.164
v5.10.165
v5.10.166
v5.10.167
v5.10.168
v5.10.169
v5.10.170
v5.10.171
v5.10.172
v5.10.173
v5.10.174
v5.10.175
v5.10.176
v5.10.177
v5.10.178
v5.10.179
v5.10.180
v5.10.181
v5.10.182
v5.10.183
v5.10.184
v5.10.185
v5.10.186
v5.10.187
v5.10.188
v5.10.189
v5.10.190
v5.10.191
v5.10.192
v5.10.193
v5.10.194
v5.10.195
v5.10.196
v5.10.197
v5.10.198
v5.10.199
v5.10.200
v5.10.201
v5.10.202
v5.10.203
v5.10.204
v5.10.205
v5.10.206
v5.10.207
v5.10.208
v5.10.209
v5.10.210
v5.10.211
v5.10.212
v5.10.213
v5.10.214
v5.10.215
v5.10.216
v5.10.217
v5.10.218
v5.10.219
v5.10.220
v5.10.221
v5.10.222
v5.10.223
v5.10.224
v5.10.225
v5.10.226
v5.10.227
v5.10.228
v5.10.229
v5.10.230
v5.10.231
v5.10.232
v5.10.233
v5.10.234
v5.10.235
v5.10.236
v5.10.237
v5.10.238
v5.10.239
v5.10.240
v5.10.241
v5.10.242
v5.10.243
v5.10.244
v5.10.245
v5.10.246
v5.10.247
v5.10.248
v5.10.249
v5.10.250
v5.10.251
v5.10.252
v5.10.253
v5.10.254
v5.10.255
v5.10.256
v5.10.257
v5.10.258
v5.10.259
v5.10.260
v5.10.261
v5.10.262
v5.10.263
v5.10.264
v5.10.265
v5.10.266
v5.10.267
v5.10.268
v5.10.269
v5.10.270
v5.10.271
v5.10.272
v5.15.47
v5.15.48
v5.15.49
v5.15.50
v5.15.51
v5.15.52
v5.15.53
v5.15.54
v5.15.55
v5.15.56
v5.15.57
v5.15.58
v5.15.59
v5.15.60
v5.15.61
v5.15.62
v5.15.63
v5.15.64
v5.15.65
v5.15.66
v5.15.67
v5.15.68
v5.15.69
v5.15.70
v5.15.71
v5.15.72
v5.15.73
v5.15.74
v5.15.75
v5.15.76
v5.15.77
v5.15.78
v5.15.79
v5.15.80
v5.15.81
v5.15.82
v5.15.83
v5.15.84
v5.15.85
v5.15.86
v5.15.87
v5.15.88
v5.15.89
v5.15.90
v5.15.91
v5.15.92
v5.15.93
v5.15.94
v5.15.95
v5.15.96
v5.15.97
v5.15.98
v5.17.15
v5.18.10
v5.18.11
v5.18.12
v5.18.13
v5.18.14
v5.18.15
v5.18.16
v5.18.17
v5.18.18
v5.18.19
v5.18.4
v5.18.5
v5.18.6
v5.18.7
v5.18.8
v5.18.9
v5.4.198
v5.4.199
v5.4.200
v5.4.201
v5.4.202
v5.4.203
v5.4.204
v5.4.205
v5.4.206
v5.4.207
v5.4.208
v5.4.209
v5.4.210
v5.4.211
v5.4.212
v5.4.213
v5.4.214
v5.4.215
v5.4.216
v5.4.217
v5.4.218
v5.4.219
v5.4.220
v5.4.221
v5.4.222
v5.4.223
v5.4.224
v5.4.225
v5.4.226
v5.4.227
v5.4.228
v5.4.229
v5.4.230
v5.4.231
v5.4.232
v5.4.233
v5.4.234
v5.4.235
v5.4.236
v5.4.237
v5.4.238
v5.4.239
v5.4.240
v5.4.241
v5.4.242
v5.4.243
v5.4.244
v5.4.245
v5.4.246
v5.4.247
v5.4.248
v5.4.249
v5.4.250
v5.4.251
v5.4.252
v5.4.253
v5.4.254
v5.4.255
v5.4.256
v5.4.257
v5.4.258
v5.4.259
v5.4.260
v5.4.261
v5.4.262
v5.4.263
v5.4.264
v5.4.265
v5.4.266
v5.4.267
v5.4.268
v5.4.269
v5.4.270
v5.4.271
v5.4.272
v5.4.273
v5.4.274
v5.4.275
v5.4.276
v5.4.277
v5.4.278
v5.4.279
v5.4.280
v5.4.281
v5.4.282
v5.4.283
v5.4.284
v5.4.285
v5.4.286
v5.4.287
v5.4.288
v5.4.289
v5.4.290
v5.4.291
v5.4.292
v5.4.293
v5.4.294
v5.4.295
v5.4.296
v5.4.297
v5.4.298
v5.4.299
v5.4.300
v5.4.301
v5.4.302

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53250.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.99
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.19.0
Fixed
6.2.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53250.json"