CVE-2023-54178
of: unittest: fix null pointer dereferencing in of_unittest_find_node_by_name()
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
30 Dec 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: unittest: fix null pointer dereferencing in of_unittest_find_node_by_name()
when kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(), name
or full_name will be NULL, strcmp() will cause
null pointer dereference.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b7d715511915a1b39f5fdcbe57a7922dfd66513https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dd8ee9de71ad8447f8459fb01dade7f6c7132dahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43cc228099c514467b8074d7ede6673cef9f33b9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c364fa869b33ca42a263bf91c22fce7e6c61d479https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c74ae8124f9687062dd99858f34c9d027ddd73dahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6ce4f0ea19c32f10867ed93d8386924326ab474https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dadf0d0dfcc81cdcb27ba5426676d13a9e4fb925https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea5bc6f5aa099e3e84d037282836234ad77cba88https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f41c65f8d05be734898cbe72af59a401b97d298a