CVE-2023-53244

media: pci: tw68: Fix null-ptr-deref bug in buf prepare and finish

Medium · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

media: pci: tw68: Fix null-ptr-deref bug in buf prepare and finish

When the driver calls tw68_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the

function call dma_alloc_coherent may fail, resulting in a empty buffer

buf->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 tw68_risc_buffer()

and the value of buf->cpu before buffer free.

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
0.00148 · 3.7th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:46Z
    media: pci: tw68: Fix null-ptr-deref bug in buf prepare and finish
    cvelistv5