Vulnerability CVE-2023-23005
Published: 2023-03-01

Description:
In the Linux kernel before 6.2, mm/memory-tiers.c misinterprets the alloc_memory_type return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer).

 References:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a625ceee8a0ab0273534cb6b432ce6b331db5ee
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.2
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