CVE-2023-52938 (GCVE-0-2023-52938)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:37 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:27
VLAI?
Title
usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist This will fix null pointer dereference that was caused by the driver attempting to resume ports that were not yet registered.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 9222912924fcf56e2d166a503eddbdb5ffd2005f , < fdd11d7136fd070b3a74d6d8799d9eac28a57fc5 (git)
Affected: e0dced9c7d4763fd97c86a13902d135f03cc42eb , < f82060da749c611ed427523b6d1605d87338aac1 (git)
Affected: 160416b397c362e37b590040a089604dd1f37de1 (git)
Affected: 6.0.15 , < 6.1 (semver)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.1.1 , < 6.1.11 (semver)
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