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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53458"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:29.665Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:23.834Z"
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-2023-53458"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53458.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53458"
title: "media: cx23885: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare() and buffer_finish()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: cx23885: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare() and buffer_finish()\n\nWhen the driver calls cx23885_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the\nfunction call dma_alloc_coherent may fail, resulting in a empty buffer\nrisc-\u003ecpu. Later when we free the buffer or access the buffer, null ptr\nderef is triggered.\n\nThis bug is similar to the following one:\nhttps://git.linuxtv.org/media_stage.git/commit/?id=2b064d91440b33fba5b452f2d1b31f13ae911d71.\n\nWe believe the bug can be also dynamically triggered from user side.\nSimilarly, we fix this by checking the return value of cx23885_risc_buffer()\nand the value of risc-\u003ecpu before buffer free."
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