{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52849 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-52849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-52849 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-52849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52849 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52849/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52849/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-52849","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52849/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-52849","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-52849","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52849","GHSA-7h7v-xpwq-j3w4","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52849"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel CXL memory driver causes a system crash during device shutdown, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/mem: Fix shutdown order\n\nIra reports that removing cxl_mock_mem causes a crash with the following\ntrace:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000044\n [..]\n RIP: 0010:cxl_region_decode_reset+0x7f/0x180 [cxl_core]\n [..]\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  cxl_region_detach+0xe8/0x210 [cxl_core]\n  cxl_decoder_kill_region+0x27/0x40 [cxl_core]\n  cxld_unregister+0x29/0x40 [cxl_core]\n  devres_release_all+0xb8/0x110\n  device_unbind_cleanup+0xe/0x70\n  device_release_driver_internal+0x1d2/0x210\n  bus_remove_device+0xd7/0x150\n  device_del+0x155/0x3e0\n  device_unregister+0x13/0x60\n  devm_release_action+0x4d/0x90\n  ? __pfx_unregister_port+0x10/0x10 [cxl_core]\n  delete_endpoint+0x121/0x130 [cxl_core]\n  devres_release_all+0xb8/0x110\n  device_unbind_cleanup+0xe/0x70\n  device_release_driver_internal+0x1d2/0x210\n  bus_remove_device+0xd7/0x150\n  device_del+0x155/0x3e0\n  ? lock_release+0x142/0x290\n  cdev_device_del+0x15/0x50\n  cxl_memdev_unregister+0x54/0x70 [cxl_core]\n\nThis crash is due to the clearing out the cxl_memdev's driver context\n(@cxlds) before the subsystem is done with it. This is ultimately due to\nthe region(s), that this memdev is a member, being torn down and expecting\nto be able to de-reference @cxlds, like here:\n\nstatic int cxl_region_decode_reset(struct cxl_region *cxlr, int count)\n...\n                if (cxlds-\u003ercd)\n                        goto endpoint_reset;\n...\n\nFix it by keeping the driver context valid until memdev-device\nunregistration, and subsequently the entire stack of related\ndependencies, unwinds.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"cxl/mem: Fix shutdown order","id":"CVE-2023-52849","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"media: hantro: Check whether reset op is defined before use","id":"CVE-2023-52850"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"f2fs: fix to drop meta_inode's page cache in f2fs_put_super()","id":"CVE-2023-52848"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-05-21","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel CXL memory driver causes a system crash during device shutdown, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52849/"}