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  "cveId": "CVE-2023-53250",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53250",
  "summary": "CVE-2023-53250 is fixed in 20 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2023-138, released March 20, 2023. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.",
  "title": "linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in dmi_s...",
  "description": "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 \u002B PIIX, 1996) RIP: 0010:dmi_sysfs_entry_release ... Call Trace:  \u003CTASK\u003E  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-\u003Elist) 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.",
  "published": "2023-03-20T18:27:00Z",
  "severity": "medium",
  "cvss": 5.5,
  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
  "epss": 0.00148,
  "epssPercentile": 0.04024,
  "priority": "Routine",
  "priorityTier": 4,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
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