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GHSA-6GH5-4FVC-RW6C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-27 18:31 – Updated: 2025-04-15 15:30

Details

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

usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist

This will fix null pointer dereference that was caused by the driver attempting to resume ports that were not yet registered.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-52938 (GCVE-0-2023-52938)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:37 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:27

Title

usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist This will fix null pointer dereference that was caused by the driver attempting to resume ports that were not yet registered.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

Linux

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdd11d7136fd070b3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f82060da749c611ed…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 9222912924fcf56e2d166a503eddbdb5ffd2005f , < fdd11d7136fd070b3a74d6d8799d9eac28a57fc5 (git) Affected: e0dced9c7d4763fd97c86a13902d135f03cc42eb , < f82060da749c611ed427523b6d1605d87338aac1 (git) Affected: 160416b397c362e37b590040a089604dd1f37de1 (git) Affected: 6.0.15 , < 6.1 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.1.1 , < 6.1.11 (semver)

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GHSA-6GH5-4FVC-RW6C

CVE-2023-52938 (GCVE-0-2023-52938)

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