NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6119878
  • published12 Dec 2023
  • disclosed11 Dec 2023
  • creditXingyuan Mo

Introduced: 11 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-6679  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the dpll_pin_parent_pin_set function in drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c. An attacker with local access can cause a system crash by triggering a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Scores

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