CVE-2023-22999

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Feb 28, 2023
Updated: Mar 20, 2025
Reserved: Jan 11, 2023

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.16.3, drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c misinterprets the dwc3_qcom_create_urs_usb_platdev return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.3
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b52fe2dbb3e655eb1483000adfab68a219549e13

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