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CVE-2023-53044

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CVE-2023-53044

Published: May 2, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a - < 2287d7b721471a3d58bcd829250336e3cdf1635e
affected
fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a - < 0d96bd507ed7e7d565b6d53ebd3874686f123b2e
affected
fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a - < 4a32a9a818a895671bd43e0c40351e60e4e9140b
affected
fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a - < c68f08cc745675a17894e1b4a5b5b9700ace6da4
affected
fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a - < 443c9d522397511a4328dc2ec3c9c63c73049756

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.12
unaffected
0 - < 3.12
unaffected
4.14.312 - <= 4.14.*
unaffected
4.19.280 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.240 - <= 5.4.*

+5 more versions

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