# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53167"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:03:56.025Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:34.087Z"
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-2023-53167"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53167.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53167"
title: "tracing: Fix null pointer dereference in tracing_err_log_open()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix null pointer dereference in tracing_err_log_open()\n\nFix an issue in function 'tracing_err_log_open'.\nThe function doesn't call 'seq_open' if the file is opened only with\nwrite permissions, which results in 'file-\u003eprivate_data' being left as null.\nIf we then use 'lseek' on that opened file, 'seq_lseek' dereferences\n'file-\u003eprivate_data' in 'mutex_lock(&m-\u003elock)', resulting in a kernel panic.\nWriting to this node requires root privileges, therefore this bug\nhas very little security impact.\n\nTracefs node: /sys/kernel/tracing/error_log\n\nExample Kernel panic:\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000038\nCall trace:\n mutex_lock+0x30/0x110\n seq_lseek+0x34/0xb8\n __arm64_sys_lseek+0x6c/0xb8\n invoke_syscall+0x58/0x13c\n el0_svc_common+0xc4/0x10c\n do_el0_svc+0x24/0x98\n el0_svc+0x24/0x88\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xe4\n el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8\nCode: d503201f aa0803e0 aa1f03e1 aa0103e9 (c8e97d02)\n---[ end trace 561d1b49c12cf8a5 ]---\nKernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8a062902be725f647dc8da532b04d836546a369a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93114cbc7cb169f6f26eeaed5286b91bb86b463b"},{"version":"8a062902be725f647dc8da532b04d836546a369a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7060e5aac6dc195124c106f49106d653a416323a"},{"version":"8a062902be725f647dc8da532b04d836546a369a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b5d9b7b875968a8a8c99dac45cb85b705c44802"},{"version":"8a062902be725f647dc8da532b04d836546a369a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"938d5b7a75e18264887387ddf9169db6d8aeef98"},{"version":"8a062902be725f647dc8da532b04d836546a369a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e1c9aa9288a46c342f0f2c5c0b1c0876b9b0276"},{"version":"8a062902be725f647dc8da532b04d836546a369a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02b0095e2fbbc060560c1065f86a211d91e27b26"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"5.4.251","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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