Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53005

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-03-27 16:43:36
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:36:45
Assigner Linux
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field' Function 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at trace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have to check it to avoid null pointer dereference. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.