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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52449" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-22T16:21:40.841Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:27:32.900Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52449" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52449.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52449" title: "mtd: Fix gluebi NULL pointer dereference caused by ftl notifier" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmtd: Fix gluebi NULL pointer dereference caused by ftl notifier\n\nIf both ftl.ko and gluebi.ko are loaded, the notifier of ftl\ntriggers NULL pointer dereference when trying to access\n‘gluebi-\u003edesc’ in gluebi_read().\n\nubi_gluebi_init\n ubi_register_volume_notifier\n ubi_enumerate_volumes\n ubi_notify_all\n gluebi_notify nb-\u003enotifier_call()\n gluebi_create\n mtd_device_register\n mtd_device_parse_register\n add_mtd_device\n blktrans_notify_add not-\u003eadd()\n ftl_add_mtd tr-\u003eadd_mtd()\n scan_header\n mtd_read\n mtd_read_oob\n mtd_read_oob_std\n gluebi_read mtd-\u003eread()\n gluebi-\u003edesc - NULL\n\nDetailed reproduction information available at the Link [1],\n\nIn the normal case, obtain gluebi-\u003edesc in the gluebi_get_device(),\nand access gluebi-\u003edesc in the gluebi_read(). However,\ngluebi_get_device() is not executed in advance in the\nftl_add_mtd() process, which leads to NULL pointer dereference.\n\nThe solution for the gluebi module is to run jffs2 on the UBI\nvolume without considering working with ftl or mtdblock [2].\nTherefore, this problem can be avoided by preventing gluebi from\ncreating the mtdblock device after creating mtd partition of the\ntype MTD_UBIVOLUME." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2ba3d76a1e29f2ba64fbc762875cf9fb2d4ba2ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aeba358bcc8ffddf9b4a9bd0e5ec9eb338d46022"},{"version":"2ba3d76a1e29f2ba64fbc762875cf9fb2d4ba2ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1bf4fe14e97cda621522eb2f28b0a4e87c5b0745"},{"version":"2ba3d76a1e29f2ba64fbc762875cf9fb2d4ba2ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"001a3f59d8c914ef8273461d4bf495df384cc5f8"},{"version":"2ba3d76a1e29f2ba64fbc762875cf9fb2d4ba2ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8ac2537763b54d278b80b2b080e1652523c7d4c"},{"version":"2ba3d76a1e29f2ba64fbc762875cf9fb2d4ba2ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5389407bba1eab1266c6d83e226fb0840cb98dd5"},{"version":"2ba3d76a1e29f2ba64fbc762875cf9fb2d4ba2ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfd7c9d260dc0a3baaea05a122a19ab91e193c65"},{"version":"2ba3d76a1e29f2ba64fbc762875cf9fb2d4ba2ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b36aaa64d58aaa2f2cbc8275e89bae76a2b6c3dc"},{"version":"2ba3d76a1e29f2ba64fbc762875cf9fb2d4ba2ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a43bdc376deab5fff1ceb93dca55bcab8dbdc1d6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.31","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.31"},{"version":"4.19.306","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.268","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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