CVE-2023-54233 (GCVE-0-2023-54233)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:11 – Updated: 2026-10-03 10:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ASoC: SOF: avoid a NULL dereference with unsupported widgets
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: SOF: avoid a NULL dereference with unsupported widgets
If an IPC4 topology contains an unsupported widget, its .module_info
field won't be set, then sof_ipc4_route_setup() will cause a kernel
Oops trying to dereference it. Add a check for such cases.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
3acd527089463742a3dd95e274d53c2fdd834716 , < d42fe2721111138d7656d4f621f38c171979c8a0
(git)
Affected: 3acd527089463742a3dd95e274d53c2fdd834716 , < 170818974e9732506195c6302743856cc8bdfd6f (git) Affected: 3acd527089463742a3dd95e274d53c2fdd834716 , < e3720f92e0237921da537e47a0b24e27899203f8 (git) |
|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.189 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.11 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
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