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CVE-2023-53044

dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure Check alloc_precpu()'s return value and return an error from dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if dm_stats_init() does. Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup() even if dm-stats isn't being actively used.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a before 2287d7b721471a3d58bcd829250336e3cdf1635e; affected fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a before 0d96bd507ed7e7d565b6d53ebd3874686f123b2e; affected fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a before 4a32a9a818a895671bd43e0c40351e60e4e9140b; affected fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a before c68f08cc745675a17894e1b4a5b5b9700ace6da4; affected fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a before 443c9d522397511a4328dc2ec3c9c63c73049756; affected fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a before a42180dd361584816bfe15c137b665699b994d90; affected fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a before 5b66e36a3efd24041b7374432bfa4dec2ff01e95; affected fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a before d3aa3e060c4a80827eb801fc448debc9daa7c46b
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.12; unaffected 0 before 3.12; unaffected 4.14.312 through 4.14.*; unaffected 4.19.280 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.240 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.177 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.105 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.22 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.2.9 through 6.2.*; unaffected 6.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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