Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025
efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent
CVE-2023-52976
Description
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]
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Affected products
85- osv-coords83 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Patches
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/87d4ff18738fd71e7e3c10827c80257da6283697mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/966d47e1f27c45507c5df82b2a2157e5a4fd3909mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2e6a9ff89f13666a1c3ff7195612ab949ea9afcmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8fc0b5fb3e816a4a8684bcd3ed02cbef0fce23cmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d92a25627bcdf264183670da73c9a60c0bac327emitre
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