CVE-2023-53856

Ecosystem	Package	Version

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-53856

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: overlay: Call of_changeset_init() early When of_overlay_fdt_apply() fails, the changeset may be partially applied, and the caller is still expected to call of_overlay_remove() to clean up this partial state. However, of_overlay_apply() calls of_resolve_phandles() before init_overlay_changeset(). Hence if the overlay fails to apply due to an unresolved symbol, the overlay_changeset.cset.entries list is still uninitialized, and cleanup will crash with a NULL-pointer dereference in overlay_removal_is_ok(). Fix this by moving the call to of_changeset_init() from init_overlay_changeset() to of_overlay_fdt_apply(), where all other early initialization is done.

Published Dec 10, 2025

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120903-CVE-2023-53856-ed42@gregkh/

CVSS ScoreMedium

5.7


rpm	kernel	4.18.0-147.0.2.el8_1
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rpm	kernel	4.18.0-147.el8
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rpm	kernel	4.18.0-193.13.2.el8_2
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rpm	kernel	4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2
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rpm	kernel	4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3
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rpm	kernel	4.18.0-240.el8
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-293.el8
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-305.10.2.el8_4
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-305.12.1.el8_4
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-305.17.1.el8_4
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rpm	kernel	4.18.0-305.el8
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-348.12.2.el8_5
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-348.2.1.el8_5
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-348.23.1.el8_5
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rpm	kernel	4.18.0-372.32.1.0.1.el8_6
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-372.32.1.0.2.el8_6
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-372.9.1.0.2.el8
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rpm	kernel	4.18.0-425.10.1.0.1.el8_7
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-425.13.1.0.1.el8_7
rpm	kernel	4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7

Ecosystem	Package	Version

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CVE-2023-53856