CVE-2023-52687

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base

9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)

0.6%

47.4th percentile

CISA KEV

Not listed

Weakness / dates

CWE-252

Published 2024-05-17 · modified 2026-08-04

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector	N	Network
Attack Complexity	L	Low
Privileges Required	N	None
User Interaction	N	None
Scope	U	Unchanged
Confidentiality	H	High
Integrity	H	High
Availability	H	High

Timeline

2024-05-17 — Published (NVD)
2026-08-04 — Last modified (NVD)

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: safexcel - Add error handling for dma_map_sg() calls Macro dma_map_sg() may return 0 on error. This patch enables checks in case of the macro failure and ensures unmapping of previously mapped buffers with dma_unmap_sg(). Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with static analysis tool SVACE.

Affected

linux

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org