CVE-2023-52861 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: bridge: it66121: Fix invalid connector dereference Fix the NULL pointer dereference when no monitor is connected, and the sound card is opened from userspace. Instead return an empty buffer (of zeroes) as the EDID information to the sound framework if there is no connector attached.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1374561a7cbc9a000b77bb0473bb2c19daf18d86
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1669d7b21a664aa531856ce85b01359a376baebc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c80c4f0d2845645f41cbb7c9304c8efbdbd4331
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0375f6858c4ff7244b62b02eb5e93428e1916cd
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024052117-CVE-2023-52861-acb2@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52861
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52861

History

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux_kernel:-:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-05-21T15:31:53.904Z

Updated: 2025-05-04T07:44:30.110Z

Reserved: 2024-05-21T15:19:24.261Z

Link: CVE-2023-52861

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:11:35.979Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-21T16:15:23.073

Modified: 2025-04-02T15:05:10.567

Link: CVE-2023-52861

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-05-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-52861 - Bugzilla

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