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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53250" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:46:20.011Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:28:24.206Z" 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-2023-53250" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53250.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53250" title: "firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in dmi_sysfs_register_handle" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in dmi_sysfs_register_handle\n\nKASAN reported a null-ptr-deref error:\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\nCPU: 0 PID: 1373 Comm: modprobe\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)\nRIP: 0010:dmi_sysfs_entry_release\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n kobject_put\n dmi_sysfs_register_handle (drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c:540) dmi_sysfs\n dmi_decode_table (drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:133)\n dmi_walk (drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:1115)\n dmi_sysfs_init (drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c:149) dmi_sysfs\n do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1296)\n ...\nKernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\nKernel Offset: 0x4000000 from 0xffffffff81000000\n---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---\n\nIt is because previous patch added kobject_put() to release the memory\nwhich will call dmi_sysfs_entry_release() and list_del().\n\nHowever, list_add_tail(entry-\u003elist) is called after the error block,\nso the list_head is uninitialized and cannot be deleted.\n\nMove error handling to after list_add_tail to fix this." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fdffa4ad8f6bf1ece877edfb807f2b2c729d8578","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4fe158259fb5fead52ff2b55841ec5c39492604"},{"version":"660ba678f9998aca6db74f2dd912fa5124f0fa31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e851996b32264e78a10863c2ac41a8689d7b9252"},{"version":"660ba678f9998aca6db74f2dd912fa5124f0fa31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d0492d1d934642bdfd2057acc1b56f4b57be465"},{"version":"660ba678f9998aca6db74f2dd912fa5124f0fa31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18e126e97c961f7a93823795c879d7c085fe5098"},{"version":"a9bfb37d6ba7c376b0d53337a4c5f5ff324bd725","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ed38d04342dfbe9e5aca745c8b5eb4188a74f0ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c66cc3c62870a27ea8f060a7e4c1ad8d26dd3f0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a724634b2a49f6ff0177a9e19a5a92fc1545e1b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"985706bd3bbeffc8737bc05965ca8d24837bc7db","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3ba359ebe914ac3f8c6c832b28007c14c39d3766","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ec752973aa721ee281d5441e497364637c626c7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.47","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.99"},{"version":"4.9.318","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.283","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.247","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.198","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.122","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.17.15","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"5.18.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","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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