# 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-2023-52976"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:16.596Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:27:38.596Z"
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-2023-52976"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52976.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52976"
title: "efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nefi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent\n\nWhen iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced\nwithout checking it for NULL.\n\nThis patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in\ncase memremap doesn't succeed.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.\n\n[ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d92a25627bcdf264183670da73c9a60c0bac327e"},{"version":"18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87d4ff18738fd71e7e3c10827c80257da6283697"},{"version":"18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8fc0b5fb3e816a4a8684bcd3ed02cbef0fce23c"},{"version":"18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2e6a9ff89f13666a1c3ff7195612ab949ea9afc"},{"version":"18df7577adae6c6c778bf774b3aebcacbc1fb439","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"966d47e1f27c45507c5df82b2a2157e5a4fd3909"},{"version":"b5961ecad7121fec138ebee7d9eba4863f9dc6e7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.1.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"5.4.232","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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