CVE-2023-52908 drm/amdgpu: Fix potential NULL dereference

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A NULL pointer dereference in the AMD GPU driver can cause a system crash when debug information is printed.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2023-52908?

CVE-2023-52908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Aug 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:

drm/amdgpu: Fix potential NULL dereference

Fix potential NULL dereference, in the case when "man", the resource manager might be NULL, when/if we print debug information.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52908?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-52908?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2023-52908 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52908 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52908, GHSA-8332-m7c6-g7c2, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52908.

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