CVE-2023-54279 (GCVE-0-2023-54279)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:16 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:16
VLAI?
Title
MIPS: fw: Allow firmware to pass a empty env
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
MIPS: fw: Allow firmware to pass a empty env
fw_getenv will use env entry to determine style of env,
however it is legal for firmware to just pass a empty list.
Check if first entry exist before running strchr to avoid
null pointer dereference.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f334b31625683418aaa2a335470eec950a95a254
(git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 830181ddced5a05a711dc9da8043203b1f33a77e (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 0f91290774c798199ba4b8df93de5c3156b5163d (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 47e61cadc7a5f3dffd42d2d6fda81be163f1ab82 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 3ef93b7bd9e042db240843f24a80e14da38c6830 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < a6b54af407873227caef6262e992f5422cdcb6ae (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ad79828f133e98585ab2236cad04a55eb7141bbe (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < aeed787bbbbe1b842beec9a065a36c915226f704 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ee1809ed7bc456a72dc8410b475b73021a3a68d5 (git) |
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