CVE-2023-53341 — Use of Uninitialized Resource in Linux

CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of/fdt: run soc memory setup when early_init_dt_scan_memory fails If memory has been found early_init_dt_scan_memory now returns 1. If it hasn't found any memory it will return 0, allowing other memory setup mechanisms to carry on. Previously early_init_dt_scan_memory always returned 0 without distinguishing between any kind of memory setup being done or not. Any code path after the early_init_dt_scan memory call in the ramip…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.17 — 6.0.19+2
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.7-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linux1f012283e9360fb4007308f04cfaeb205e34b684 — 04836fc5b720dfa32ff781383d84f63019abf9b9+3
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.7-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h68c-38x6-5x45: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of/fdt: run soc memory setup when early_init_dt_scan_memory fails If memory has↗2025-09-17
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OSV
CVE-2023-53341: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of/fdt: run soc memory setup when early_init_dt_scan_memory fails If memory has be↗2025-09-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: of/fdt: run soc memory setup when early_init_dt_scan_memory fails↗2025-09-17
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Debian
CVE-2023-53341: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of/fdt: run...↗2023
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