# 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-2023-52893"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-21T06:10:33.043Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:35:00.760Z"
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-2023-52893"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52893.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52893"
title: "gsmi: fix null-deref in gsmi_get_variable"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngsmi: fix null-deref in gsmi_get_variable\n\nWe can get EFI variables without fetching the attribute, so we must\nallow for that in gsmi.\n\ncommit 859748255b43 (\"efi: pstore: Omit efivars caching EFI varstore\naccess layer\") added a new get_variable call with attr=NULL, which\ntriggers panic in gsmi."
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