{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54198 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-54198 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. 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-2023-54198 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-54198 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. 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-2023-54198 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. 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-2023-54198/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54198/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-54198","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54198/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-54198","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-54198","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54198","GHSA-39rg-6496-pf73","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54198"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel crash by specifying an invalid console device during boot, leading to a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty()\n\nWhen specifying an invalid console= device like console=tty3270,\ntty_driver_lookup_tty() returns the tty struct without checking\nwhether index is a valid number.\n\nTo reproduce:\n\nqemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -nographic -serial mon:stdio \\\n-kernel ../linux-build-x86/arch/x86/boot/bzImage \\\n-append \"console=ttyS0 console=tty3270\"\n\nThis crashes with:\n\n[    0.770599] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000ef\n[    0.771265] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n[    0.771773] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n[    0.772609] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n[    0.774878] RIP: 0010:tty_open+0x268/0x6f0\n[    0.784013]  chrdev_open+0xbd/0x230\n[    0.784444]  ? cdev_device_add+0x80/0x80\n[    0.784920]  do_dentry_open+0x1e0/0x410\n[    0.785389]  path_openat+0xca9/0x1050\n[    0.785813]  do_filp_open+0xaa/0x150\n[    0.786240]  file_open_name+0x133/0x1b0\n[    0.786746]  filp_open+0x27/0x50\n[    0.787244]  console_on_rootfs+0x14/0x4d\n[    0.787800]  kernel_init_freeable+0x1e4/0x20d\n[    0.788383]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0\n[    0.788881]  kernel_init+0x11/0x120\n[    0.789356]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30","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":"tty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty()","id":"CVE-2023-54198","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"drm/msm/adreno: Fix null ptr access in adreno_gpu_cleanup()","id":"CVE-2023-54199"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Revert \"Bluetooth: btsdio: fix use after free bug in btsdio_remove due to unfinished work\"","id":"CVE-2023-54197"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-30","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel crash by specifying an invalid console device during boot, leading to a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54198/"}