CVE-2023-54087

ubi: Fix possible null-ptr-deref in ubi_free_volume()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

ubi: Fix possible null-ptr-deref in ubi_free_volume()

It willl cause null-ptr-deref in the following case:

uif_init() ubi_add_volume() cdev_add() -> if it fails, call kill_volumes() device_register()

kill_volumes() -> if ubi_add_volume() fails call this function ubi_free_volume() cdev_del() device_unregister() -> trying to delete a not added device, it causes null-ptr-deref

So in ubi_free_volume(), it delete devices whether they are added or not, it will causes null-ptr-deref.

Handle the error case whlie calling ubi_add_volume() to fix this problem. If add volume fails, set the corresponding vol to null, so it can not be accessed in kill_volumes() and release the resource in ubi_add_volume() error path.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 to before 5558bcf1c58720ca6e9d6198d921cb3aa337f038Affected
  • 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 to before 45b2c5ca4d2edae70f19fdb086bd927840c4c309Affected
  • 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 to before 234c53e57424992e657e6f4acc00d3df0983176fAffected
  • 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 to before fcbc795abe7897da4b5d2a6ab5010e36774b00c2Affected
  • 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 to before 5ec4c8aca5a221756a9007deadfea92795319feeAffected
  • 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 to before 2ea7195b195009ecf0046e55361f393ba96d02dbAffected
  • 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 to before 9eccdb0760cbcb4427b5303a83a3007de998af51Affected
  • 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 to before c15859bfd326c10230f09cb48a17f8a35f190342Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.22Affected
  • before 2.6.22Not affected
  • 4.14.308 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.276 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.235 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.173 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.100 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.18 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.5 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

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