CVE-2023-53458
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.01
BB Relevance:
36/100
Published: 2025-10-01
Modified: 2026-11-05
First seen: 2026-11-05
Status: active
Attack Surface
Low Complexity
No Interaction
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Local
AC:
Low
PR:
Low
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
None
I:
None
A:
High
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cx23885: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare() and buffer_finish() When the driver calls cx23885_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the function call dma_alloc_coherent may fail, resulting in a empty buffer risc->cpu. Later when we free the buffer or access the buffer, null ptr deref is triggered. This bug is similar to the following one: https://git.linuxtv.org/media_stage.git/commit/?id=2b064d91440b33fba5b452f2d1b31f13ae911d71. We believe the bug can be also dynamically triggered from user side. Similarly, we fix this by checking the return value of cx23885_risc_buffer() and the value of risc->cpu before buffer free.
Weakness Classification (1)
Affected Software (6)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 4d63a25c4523b5d18e5307897d56aff785f43bf5 < f0a06203f2fe63f04311467200c99c4ee1926578 |
| Linux | Linux | 4d63a25c4523b5d18e5307897d56aff785f43bf5 < 6738841f6fcf23e9fc30e2449f32fc84ee19c6f1 |
| Linux | Linux | 4d63a25c4523b5d18e5307897d56aff785f43bf5 < 5b8e5e28e85a546dfccc3895befe0e823fdd7c89 |
| Linux | Linux | 4d63a25c4523b5d18e5307897d56aff785f43bf5 < 47e8b73bc35d7c54642f78e498697692f6358996 |
| Linux | Linux | 3.18 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 3.18 – 5.15.113 |