CVE detail
CVE-2023-52976 — CVE-2023-52976
Published 2025-03-27 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0027
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
19.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent
When iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced
without checking it for NULL.
This patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in
case memremap doesn't succeed.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
[ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References