What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-52465: power: supply: Fix null pointer dereference in smb2_probe

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: Fix null pointer dereference in smb2_probe devm_kasprintf and devm_kzalloc return a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 6.5.0 before 6.6.14; from 6.7.0 before 6.7.2 — fixed in 6.6.14, 6.7.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.6.14, 6.7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88f04bc3e737155e13caddf0ba8ed19db87f0212
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd3d2ec447ede9da822addf3960a5f4275e3ae76
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2717302fbc20f148bcda362facee0444b949a3a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88f04bc3e737155e13caddf0ba8ed19db87f0212
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd3d2ec447ede9da822addf3960a5f4275e3ae76
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2717302fbc20f148bcda362facee0444b949a3a

Get alerted when CVE-2023-52465 or the next vulnerability affects your stack