CVE-2023-22997

Summary

CVECVE-2023-22997
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-28 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-03-06 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel before 6.1.2, kernel/module/decompress.c misinterprets the module_get_next_page return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.1.2 MISC cdn.kernel.org
module: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR checking for module_get_next_page · torvalds/linux@45af1d7 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182577 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2023-22997)
  • 199294 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6024-1)
  • 905708 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (13824)
  • 905721 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (13807)
  • 906707 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (13807-1)
  • 906913 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (13824-1)
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