Vulnerability CVE-2023-52450


Published: 2024-02-22

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

perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue in upi_fill_topology()

Get logical socket id instead of physical id in discover_upi_topology()
to avoid out-of-bound access on 'upi = &type->topology[nid][idx];' line
that leads to NULL pointer dereference in upi_fill_topology()

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf1bf09e6b599758851457f3999779622a48d015
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6f4a78b104c65e4256c3776c9949f49a1b459e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1692cf434ba13ee212495b5af795b6a07e986ce4

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