Riskcovery

CVE-2023-53044

dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 2, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure

Check alloc_precpu()'s return value and return an error from dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if dm_stats_init() does.

Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup() even if dm-stats isn't being actively used.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a to before 2287d7b721471a3d58bcd829250336e3cdf1635eAffected
  • fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a to before 0d96bd507ed7e7d565b6d53ebd3874686f123b2eAffected
  • fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a to before 4a32a9a818a895671bd43e0c40351e60e4e9140bAffected
  • fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a to before c68f08cc745675a17894e1b4a5b5b9700ace6da4Affected
  • fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a to before 443c9d522397511a4328dc2ec3c9c63c73049756Affected
  • fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a to before a42180dd361584816bfe15c137b665699b994d90Affected
  • fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a to before 5b66e36a3efd24041b7374432bfa4dec2ff01e95Affected
  • fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a to before d3aa3e060c4a80827eb801fc448debc9daa7c46bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.12Affected
  • before 3.12Not affected
  • 4.14.312 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.280 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.240 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.177 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.105 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.22 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.9 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

References

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