{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2024-02-29T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: dmaengine: fix NULL pointer in channel unregistration function",
    "id" : "2269183",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269183"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\ndmaengine: fix NULL pointer in channel unregistration function\n__dma_async_device_channel_register() can fail. In case of failure,\nchan->local is freed (with free_percpu()), and chan->local is nullified.\nWhen dma_async_device_unregister() is called (because of managed API or\nintentionally by DMA controller driver), channels are unconditionally\nunregistered, leading to this NULL pointer:\n[    1.318693] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000d0\n[...]\n[    1.484499] Call trace:\n[    1.486930]  device_del+0x40/0x394\n[    1.490314]  device_unregister+0x20/0x7c\n[    1.494220]  __dma_async_device_channel_unregister+0x68/0xc0\nLook at dma_async_device_register() function error path, channel device\nunregistration is done only if chan->local is not NULL.\nThen add the same condition at the beginning of\n__dma_async_device_channel_unregister() function, to avoid NULL pointer\nissue whatever the API used to reach this function.", "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\ndmaengine: fix NULL pointer in channel unregistration function\nThe Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52492 to this issue.\nUpstream advisory:\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/20240229155245.1571576-33-lee@kernel.org/T" ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:8870",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:8856",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:9315",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:9315",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2025-05-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:7526",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.68.1.el9_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52492\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52492\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/20240229155245.1571576-33-lee@kernel.org/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-52492",
  "csaw" : false
}