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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init

CVE-2023-52616

Description

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

crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init

When the mpi_ec_ctx structure is initialized, some fields are not cleared, causing a crash when referencing the field when the structure was released. Initially, this issue was ignored because memory for mpi_ec_ctx is allocated with the __GFP_ZERO flag. For example, this error will be triggered when calculating the Za value for SM2 separately.

Affected products

151

Patches

0

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