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CVE-2023-52613: drivers/thermal/loongson2_thermal: Fix incorrect PTR_ERR() judgment

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.22% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 15ef92e9c41124ee9d88b01208364f3fe1f45f84, 6010a9fc14eb1feab5cafd84422001134fe8ec58, 70481755ed77400e783200e2d022e5fea16060ce.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 15ef92e9c41124ee9d88b01208364f3fe1f45f84, 6010a9fc14eb1feab5cafd84422001134fe8ec58, 70481755ed77400e783200e2d022e5fea16060ce or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/thermal/loongson2_thermal: Fix incorrect PTR_ERR() judgment PTR_ERR() returns -ENODEV when thermal-zones are undefined, and we need -ENODEV as the right value for comparison. Otherwise, tz->type is NULL when thermal-zones is undefined, resulting in the following error: [ 12.290030] CPU 1 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffffffffff1, era == 900000000355f410, ra == 90000000031579b8 [ 12.302877] Oops[#1]: [ 12.305190] CPU: 1 PID: 181 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.6.0-rc7+ #5385 [ 12.312304] pc 900000000355f410 ra 90000000031579b8 tp 90000001069e8000 sp 90000001069eba10 [ 12.320739] a0 0000000000000000 a1 fffffffffffffff1 a2 0000000000000014 a3 0000000000000001 [ 12.329173] a4 90000001069eb990 a5 0000000000000001 a6 0000000000001001 a7 900000010003431c [ 12.337606] t0 fffffffffffffff1 t1 54567fd5da9b4fd4 t2 900000010614ec40 t3 00000000000dc901 [ 12.346041] t4 0000000000000000 t5 0000000000000004 t6 900000010614ee20 t7 900000000d00b790 [ 12.354472] t8 00000000000dc901 u0 54567fd5da9b4fd4 s9 900000000402ae10 s0 900000010614ec40 [ 12.362916] s1 90000000039fced0 s2 ffffffffffffffed s3 ffffffffffffffed s4 9000000003acc000 [ 12.362931] s5 0000000000000004 s6 fffffffffffff000 s7 0000000000000490 s8 90000001028b2ec8 [ 12.362938] ra: 90000000031579b8 thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs+0x258/0x300 [ 12.386411] ERA: 900000000355f410 strscpy+0xf0/0x160 [ 12.391626] CRMD: 000000b0 (PLV0 -IE -DA +PG DACF=CC DACM=CC -WE) [ 12.397898] PRMD: 00000004 (PPLV0 +PIE -PWE) [ 12.403678] EUEN: 00000000 (-FPE -SXE -ASXE -BTE) [ 12.409859] ECFG: 00071c1c (LIE=2-4,10-12 VS=7) [ 12.415882] ESTAT: 00010000 [PIL] (IS= ECode=1 EsubCode=0) [ 12.415907] BADV: fffffffffffffff1 [ 12.415911] PRID: 0014a000 (Loongson-64bit, Loongson-2K1000) [ 12.415917] Modules linked in: loongson2_thermal(+) vfat fat uio_pdrv_genirq uio fuse zram zsmalloc [ 12.415950] Process systemd-udevd (pid: 181, threadinfo=00000000358b9718, task=00000000ace72fe3) [ 12.415961] Stack : 0000000000000dc0 54567fd5da9b4fd4 900000000402ae10 9000000002df9358 [ 12.415982] ffffffffffffffed 0000000000000004 9000000107a10aa8 90000001002a3410 [ 12.415999] ffffffffffffffed ffffffffffffffed 9000000107a11268 9000000003157ab0 [ 12.416016] 9000000107a10aa8 ffffff80020fc0c8 90000001002a3410 ffffffffffffffed [ 12.416032] 0000000000000024 ffffff80020cc1e8 900000000402b2a0 9000000003acc000 [ 12.416048] 90000001002a3410 0000000000000000 ffffff80020f4030 90000001002a3410 [ 12.416065] 0000000000000000 9000000002df6808 90000001002a3410 0000000000000000 [ 12.416081] ffffff80020f4030 0000000000000000 90000001002a3410 9000000002df2ba8 [ 12.416097] 00000000000000b4 90000001002a34f4 90000001002a3410 0000000000000002 [ 12.416114] ffffff80020f4030 fffffffffffffff0 90000001002a3410 9000000002df2f30 [ 12.416131] ... [ 12.416138] Call Trace: [ 12.416142] [<900000000355f410>] strscpy+0xf0/0x160 [ 12.416167] [<90000000031579b8>] thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs+0x258/0x300 [ 12.416183] [<9000000003157ab0>] devm_thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs+0x50/0xe0 [ 12.416200] [<ffffff80020cc1e8>] loongson2_thermal_probe+0x128/0x200 [loongson2_thermal] [ 12.416232] [<9000000002df6808>] platform_probe+0x68/0x140 [ 12.416249] [<9000000002df2ba8>] really_probe+0xc8/0x3c0 [ 12.416269] [<9000000002df2f30>] __driver_probe_device+0x90/0x180 [ 12.416286] [<9000000002df3058>] driver_probe_device+0x38/0x160 [ 12.416302] [<9000000002df33a8>] __driver_attach+0xa8/0x200 [ 12.416314] [<9000000002deffec>] bus_for_each_dev+0x8c/0x120 [ 12.416330] [<9000000002df198c>] bus_add_driver+0x10c/0x2a0 [ 12.416346] [<9000000002df46b4>] driver_register+0x74/0x160 [ 12.416358] [<90000000022201a4>] do_one_initcall+0x84/0x220 [ 12.416372] [<90000000022f3ab8>] do_init_module+0x58/0x2c0 [ ---truncated---

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Mar 18, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 12th percentile

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Action score

22

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • linux linux kernel6.6 and later · before 6.6.14
  • linux linux kernel6.7 and later · before 6.7.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Linux Linux

    • 6.6affected
    • e7e3a7c35791fe7a70997883fb8ada5866a40f4d and later · before 70481755ed77400e783200e2d022e5fea16060ceaffected · git
    • e7e3a7c35791fe7a70997883fb8ada5866a40f4d and later · before 6010a9fc14eb1feab5cafd84422001134fe8ec58affected · git
    • e7e3a7c35791fe7a70997883fb8ada5866a40f4d and later · before 15ef92e9c41124ee9d88b01208364f3fe1f45f84affected · git
    • before 6.6not affected · semver
    • 6.6.14 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
    • 6.7.2 and later · up to and including 6.7.*not affected · semver
    • 6.8 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.6.15-16.6.15-1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-52610Mar 18, 2024 · net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-52611Mar 18, 2024 · wifi: rtw88: sdio: Honor the host max_req_size in the RX path
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2023-52615Mar 18, 2024 · hwrng: core - Fix page fault dead lock on mmap-ed hwrng
    22Monitor

Remediation

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Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux15ef92e9c41124ee9d88b01208364f3fe1f45f84Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6010a9fc14eb1feab5cafd84422001134fe8ec58Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux70481755ed77400e783200e2d022e5fea16060ceVendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.6.15-1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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