CVE-2023-52459 media: v4l: async: Fix duplicated list deletion

What is CVE-2023-52459?

CVE-2023-52459 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 23 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: v4l: async: Fix duplicated list deletion

The list deletion call dropped here is already called from the helper function in the line before. Having a second list_del() call results in either a warning (with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y):

list_del corruption, c46c8198->next is LIST_POISON1 (00000100)

If CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST is disabled the operation results in a kernel error due to NULL pointer dereference.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52459?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-52459?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2023-52459 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52459 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-52459, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52459, GHSA-98x5-562f-mwvp, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52459.