CVE-2023-54044 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 84.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
When removing a SPMI driver, there can be a crash due to NULL pointer
dereference if it does not have a remove callback defined. This is
one such call trace observed when removing the QCOM SPMI PMIC driver:
dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8
dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x16c
panic+0x188/0x498
__cfi_slowpath+0x0/0x214
__cfi_slowpath+0x1dc/0x214
spmi_drv_remove+0x16c/0x1e0
de…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 — b95a69214daea4aab1c8bad96571d988a62e2c97+9
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2023-54044: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver When removing a↗2025-12-24
GHSA▶
GHSA-vx9r-hw29-38g6: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
When removing↗2025-12-24