# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52616"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-18T10:14:46.066Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:10:44.363Z"
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-2023-52616"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52616.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52616"
title: "crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init\n\nWhen the mpi_ec_ctx structure is initialized, some fields are not\ncleared, causing a crash when referencing the field when the\nstructure was released. Initially, this issue was ignored because\nmemory for mpi_ec_ctx is allocated with the __GFP_ZERO flag.\nFor example, this error will be triggered when calculating the\nZa value for SM2 separately."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d58bb7e55a8a65894cc02f27c3e2bf9403e7c40f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c3687822259a7628c85cd21a3445cbe3c367165"},{"version":"d58bb7e55a8a65894cc02f27c3e2bf9403e7c40f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bb86817b33c9d704e127f92b838035a72c315b6"},{"version":"d58bb7e55a8a65894cc02f27c3e2bf9403e7c40f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb44477d4506e52785693a39f03cdc6a2c5e8598"},{"version":"d58bb7e55a8a65894cc02f27c3e2bf9403e7c40f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ebf812b7019fd2d4d5a7ca45ef4bf3a6f4bda0a"},{"version":"d58bb7e55a8a65894cc02f27c3e2bf9403e7c40f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7abdfd45a650c714d5ebab564bb1b988f14d9b49"},{"version":"d58bb7e55a8a65894cc02f27c3e2bf9403e7c40f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba3c5574203034781ac4231acf117da917efcd2a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"5.10.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.79","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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