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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2023-52616 json

crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init

published 2024-03-18 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2023-57240

cvss
7.8
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 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init

When the mpi_ec_ctx structure is initialized, some fields are not cleared, causing a crash when referencing the field when the structure was released. Initially, this issue was ignored because memory for mpi_ec_ctx is allocated with the __GFP_ZERO flag. For example, this error will be triggered when calculating the Za value for SM2 separately.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.79, 6.6.15, 6.7.3, 6.8
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.82-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.6.15-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52616

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-106.116
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1061.67
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1059.67
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1058.63
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1054.57
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1058.63
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1063.72
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1044.51

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52616

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

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-9.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-9.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-17.1.1.51
  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.5.1
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1SUSE-SU-2024:2203-1SUSE-SU-2024:2135-1SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1

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-2023-52616 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init

  • 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

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 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

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Sources

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