CVE-2023-53856 (GCVE-0-2023-53856)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:30 – Updated: 2025-12-09 01:30
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: overlay: Call of_changeset_init() early When of_overlay_fdt_apply() fails, the changeset may be partially applied, and the caller is still expected to call of_overlay_remove() to clean up this partial state. However, of_overlay_apply() calls of_resolve_phandles() before init_overlay_changeset(). Hence if the overlay fails to apply due to an unresolved symbol, the overlay_changeset.cset.entries list is still uninitialized, and cleanup will crash with a NULL-pointer dereference in overlay_removal_is_ok(). Fix this by moving the call to of_changeset_init() from init_overlay_changeset() to of_overlay_fdt_apply(), where all other early initialization is done.
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Linux Linux Affected: f948d6d8b792bb90041edc12eac35faf83030994 , < 01bb96ad38089f5cc6de7746dac13437d35eb1dc (git)
Affected: f948d6d8b792bb90041edc12eac35faf83030994 , < 3fb210cd521c9efcb211e9f5ce40fc907200bf13 (git)
Affected: f948d6d8b792bb90041edc12eac35faf83030994 , < be86241bf5d1efd16d8a7231c13b33459c5d755d (git)
Affected: f948d6d8b792bb90041edc12eac35faf83030994 , < c403c81b577a67fe9ec6a2e89d143256487be50f (git)
Affected: f948d6d8b792bb90041edc12eac35faf83030994 , < a9515ff4fb142b690a0d2b58782b15903b990dba (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.53 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.16 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.3 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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