PT-2024-8473

CVE-2023-52686

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Published

2023-12-13

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Updated

2025-09-29

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.0
High
MetricsAV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue is related to a null pointer dereference in the opal event init() function. This can lead to a denial of service. The kasprintf() function returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory, which can be NULL upon failure.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
ALSA-2024:4211
ALSA-2025_12746
ALSA-2025_12752
ALSA-2025_12753
ALSA-2025_16880
CESA-2024_4211
DLA-3841-1
INFSA-2024_4211
INFSA-2024_9315
OESA-2024-1705
OESA-2024-1706
OESA-2024-1707
OPENSUSE-SU-2024_2185-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024_2189-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024_2948-1
RHSA-2024:4211
RHSA-2024_4211
RHSA-2024:9315
RHSA-2024_9315
RLSA-2024:4211
RXSA-2024:4211
SUSE-SU-2024:1979-1
SUSE-SU-2024:1983-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2010-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2011-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2135-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2183-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2184-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2185-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2203-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2923-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2948-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20166-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20249-1
USN-6818-1
USN-6818-2
USN-6818-3
USN-6818-4
USN-6819-1
USN-6819-2
USN-6819-3
USN-6819-4
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