PT-2025-54007 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Published 2025-12-30 · Updated 2026-03-24 · CVE-2023-54178

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw exists in the Linux kernel related to null pointer dereferencing within the of unittest find node by name() function. Specifically, if kmalloc() fails to allocate memory during the kasprintf() operation, the name or full name variables can become NULL. Subsequently, a strcmp() operation on these NULL values leads to a null pointer dereference.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-54178

SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1

SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1

SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1

SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1

SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1

SUSE-SU-2026:20498-1

SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1

SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 1463

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/54xxx/CVE-2023-54178.json · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-54178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54178 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BELL-CVE-2023-54178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-54178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-54178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:20498-1 · Vendor Advisory