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of: unittest: fix null pointer dereferencing in of_unittest_find_node_by_name()
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 5.4.257, 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-54178
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 01:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
of: unittest: fix null pointer dereferencing in of_unittest_find_node_by_name()
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 30 Dec 2025, 12:08 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2023-54178
Kernel
Fixed versions: 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3
Complete source record
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