CVE-2023-54248 (GCVE-0-2023-54248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:15 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:58
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Title
fs/ntfs3: Add check for kmemdup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Add check for kmemdup Since the kmemdup may return NULL pointer, it should be better to add check for the return value in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
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Linux Linux Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < 952bbfcedbf895963509861e55a6e4fc105eb842 (git)
Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < 7898db22ed6cee909513cf4935b5f9f0298b74f0 (git)
Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < 9f36704a58adade3b0216f8a3fa5503db4517208 (git)
Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < cdcdfd57f4c701f832787da1309cc6687917d783 (git)
Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < e6c3cef24cb0d045f99d5cb039b344874e3cfd74 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.111 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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