CVE-2023-52976

efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent

Medium · published March 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent

When iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced

without checking it for NULL.

This patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in

case memremap doesn't succeed.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

[ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00281 · 19.5th percentile
Published
2025-03-27T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 16:43Z
    efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent
    cvelistv5