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medium 5.5

CVE-2023-52512 json

pinctrl: nuvoton: wpcm450: fix out of bounds write

published 2024-03-02 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-57137

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: nuvoton: wpcm450: fix out of bounds write

Write into 'pctrl->gpio_bank' happens before the check for GPIO index validity, so out of bounds write may happen.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.1.59, 6.5.8, 6.6
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.64-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.5.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52512

  • linux-nvidia-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1014.14

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52512

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-52512 updated cvss 6.7

kernel: pinctrl: nuvoton: wpcm450: fix out of bounds write

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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