vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-52976: Important priority package update for kernel

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Added
Jun 11, 2025
Modified
Jul 17, 2025

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]
A flaw was found in the EFI module in the Linux kernel. A NULL pointer dereference can be triggered due to a missing check of the return value of the memremap function, causing a crash and resulting in a denial of service.

Solutions

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