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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52808" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:31:18.330Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:33:30.737Z" 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-2023-52808" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52808.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52808" title: "scsi: hisi_sas: Set debugfs_dir pointer to NULL after removing debugfs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: hisi_sas: Set debugfs_dir pointer to NULL after removing debugfs\n\nIf init debugfs failed during device registration due to memory allocation\nfailure, debugfs_remove_recursive() is called, after which debugfs_dir is\nnot set to NULL. debugfs_remove_recursive() will be called again during\ndevice removal. As a result, illegal pointer is accessed.\n\n[ 1665.467244] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: failed to init debugfs!\n...\n[ 1669.836708] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000a0\n[ 1669.872669] pc : down_write+0x24/0x70\n[ 1669.876315] lr : down_write+0x1c/0x70\n[ 1669.879961] sp : ffff000036f53a30\n[ 1669.883260] x29: ffff000036f53a30 x28: ffffa027c31549f8\n[ 1669.888547] x27: ffffa027c3140000 x26: 0000000000000000\n[ 1669.893834] x25: ffffa027bf37c270 x24: ffffa027bf37c270\n[ 1669.899122] x23: ffff0000095406b8 x22: ffff0000095406a8\n[ 1669.904408] x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffffa027bf37c310\n[ 1669.909695] x19: 00000000000000a0 x18: ffff8027dcd86f10\n[ 1669.914982] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000\n[ 1669.920268] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: ffffa0274014f870\n[ 1669.925555] x13: 0000000000000040 x12: 0000000000000228\n[ 1669.930842] x11: 0000000000000020 x10: 0000000000000bb0\n[ 1669.936129] x9 : ffff000036f537f0 x8 : ffff80273088ca10\n[ 1669.941416] x7 : 000000000000001d x6 : 00000000ffffffff\n[ 1669.946702] x5 : ffff000008a36310 x4 : ffff80273088be00\n[ 1669.951989] x3 : ffff000009513e90 x2 : 0000000000000000\n[ 1669.957276] x1 : 00000000000000a0 x0 : ffffffff00000001\n[ 1669.962563] Call trace:\n[ 1669.965000] down_write+0x24/0x70\n[ 1669.968301] debugfs_remove_recursive+0x5c/0x1b0\n[ 1669.972905] hisi_sas_debugfs_exit+0x24/0x30 [hisi_sas_main]\n[ 1669.978541] hisi_sas_v3_remove+0x130/0x150 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]\n[ 1669.984175] pci_device_remove+0x48/0xd8\n[ 1669.988082] device_release_driver_internal+0x1b4/0x250\n[ 1669.993282] device_release_driver+0x28/0x38\n[ 1669.997534] pci_stop_bus_device+0x84/0xb8\n[ 1670.001611] pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x24/0x40\n[ 1670.007244] remove_store+0xfc/0x140\n[ 1670.010802] dev_attr_store+0x44/0x60\n[ 1670.014448] sysfs_kf_write+0x58/0x80\n[ 1670.018095] kernfs_fop_write+0xe8/0x1f0\n[ 1670.022000] __vfs_write+0x60/0x190\n[ 1670.025472] vfs_write+0xac/0x1c0\n[ 1670.028771] ksys_write+0x6c/0xd8\n[ 1670.032071] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30\n[ 1670.035977] el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130\n[ 1670.039710] el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78\n[ 1670.043442] el0_svc+0x8/0xc\n\nTo fix this, set debugfs_dir to NULL after debugfs_remove_recursive()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"47caad1577cd7a39e2048c5e4edbce4b863dc12b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0bfc8a5561fb0b2c48183dcbfe00bdd6d973bd3"},{"version":"47caad1577cd7a39e2048c5e4edbce4b863dc12b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33331b265aac9441ac0c1a5442e3f05d038240ec"},{"version":"47caad1577cd7a39e2048c5e4edbce4b863dc12b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75a2656260fe8c7eeabda6ff4600b29e183f48db"},{"version":"47caad1577cd7a39e2048c5e4edbce4b863dc12b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4465009e7d60c6111946db4c8f1e50d401ed7be"},{"version":"47caad1577cd7a39e2048c5e4edbce4b863dc12b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6de426f9276c448e2db7238911c97fb157cb23be"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"5.15.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7","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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