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CVE-2023-52472

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CVE-2023-52472

Published: Feb 25, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: rsa - add a check for allocation failure Static checkers insist that the mpi_alloc() allocation can fail so add a check to prevent a NULL dereference. Small allocations like this can't actually fail in current kernels, but adding a check is very simple and makes the static checkers happy.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
6637e11e4ad22ff03183da0dbd36d65c98b81cf7 - < 2831f4d3bfa68e64c5f83e96688be779c87b3511
affected
6637e11e4ad22ff03183da0dbd36d65c98b81cf7 - < 95ad8b6879e2e49d02e3bfc0e1fb46421633fe2a
affected
6637e11e4ad22ff03183da0dbd36d65c98b81cf7 - < d872ca165cb67112f2841ef9c37d51ef7e63d1e4

Linux

Linux

affected
6.5
unaffected
0 - < 6.5
unaffected
6.6.14 - <= 6.6.*
unaffected
6.7.2 - <= 6.7.*
unaffected
6.8 - <= *

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