CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-53658

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was resolved in the spi bcm-qspi driver, which returns success in probe when neither 'hif_mspi' nor 'mspi' resources are present. This leads to a null pointer access on removal, as platform_get_drvdata() returns NULL which is then dereferenced.

Risk Assessment

This may cause kernel crashes (oops) and system instability during driver removal.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that unconditionally calls devm_ioremap_resource().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available If neither a "hif_mspi" nor "mspi" resource is present, the driver will just early exit in probe but still return success. Apart from not doing anything meaningful, this would then also lead to a null pointer access on removal, as platform_get_drvdata() would return NULL, which it would then try to dereference when trying to unregister the spi master. Fix this by unconditionally calling devm_ioremap_resource(), as it can handle a NULL res and will then return a viable ERR_PTR() if we get one. The "return 0;" was previously a "goto qspi_resource_err;" where then ret was returned, but since ret was still initialized to 0 at this place this was a valid conversion in 63c5395bb7a9 ("spi: bcm-qspi: Fix use-after-free on unbind"). The issue was not introduced by this commit, only made more obvious.

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