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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 6, 2024· Updated May 21, 2025

powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add

CVE-2023-52607

Description

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

powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add

kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.

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