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CVE-2023-54198— tty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty()

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Linux Linux
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于tty_driver_lookup_tty函数存在越界访问。

CVSS 7.8 · High EPSS 0.15% · P4

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1068 · Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Affected Version Matrix 18

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux 99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7< 3df6f492f500a16c231f07ccc6f6ed1302caddf9 affected
99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7< b79109d6470aaae7062998353e3a19449055829d affected
99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7< 953a4a352a0c185460ae1449e4c6e6658e55fdfc affected
99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7< 84ea44dc3e4ecb2632586238014bf6722aa5843b affected
99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7< f9d9d25ad1f0d060eaf297a2f7f03b5855a45561 affected
99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7< 765566110eb0da3cf60198b0165ecceeaafa6444 affected
99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7< fcfeaa570f7a5c2d5f4f14931909531ff18b7fde affected
99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7< db4df8e9d79e7d37732c1a1b560958e8dadfefa1 affected
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2023-54198

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Vulnerability Title
tty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty()
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty() When specifying an invalid console= device like console=tty3270, tty_driver_lookup_tty() returns the tty struct without checking whether index is a valid number. To reproduce: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -nographic -serial mon:stdio \ -kernel ../linux-build-x86/arch/x86/boot/bzImage \ -append "console=ttyS0 console=tty3270" This crashes with: [ 0.770599] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000ef [ 0.771265] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 0.771773] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 0.772609] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 0.774878] RIP: 0010:tty_open+0x268/0x6f0 [ 0.784013] chrdev_open+0xbd/0x230 [ 0.784444] ? cdev_device_add+0x80/0x80 [ 0.784920] do_dentry_open+0x1e0/0x410 [ 0.785389] path_openat+0xca9/0x1050 [ 0.785813] do_filp_open+0xaa/0x150 [ 0.786240] file_open_name+0x133/0x1b0 [ 0.786746] filp_open+0x27/0x50 [ 0.787244] console_on_rootfs+0x14/0x4d [ 0.787800] kernel_init_freeable+0x1e4/0x20d [ 0.788383] ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0 [ 0.788881] kernel_init+0x11/0x120 [ 0.789356] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于tty_driver_lookup_tty函数存在越界访问。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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Linux Linux 99f1fe189daf8e99a847e420567e49dd7ee2aae7 ~ 3df6f492f500a16c231f07ccc6f6ed1302caddf9 -
Linux Linux 2.6.28 -

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Other References for CVE-2023-54198 (8)

Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2025-12-30 · 244 CVEs total

CVE-2023-54258 9.8 CRITICAL cifs: fix potential oops in cifs_oplock_break
CVE-2023-54223 9.8 CRITICAL net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix invalid buffer access for legacy rq
CVE-2023-54237 9.8 CRITICAL net/smc: fix potential panic dues to unprotected smc_llc_srv_add_link()
CVE-2023-54257 9.8 CRITICAL net: macb: fix a memory corruption in extended buffer descriptor mode
CVE-2023-54269 9.8 CRITICAL SUNRPC: double free xprt_ctxt while still in use
CVE-2023-54280 9.8 CRITICAL cifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc
CVE-2023-54292 9.8 CRITICAL RDMA/irdma: Fix data race on CQP request done
CVE-2023-54184 9.8 CRITICAL scsi: target: iscsit: Free cmds before session free
CVE-2023-54203 9.1 CRITICAL ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds in init_smb2_rsp_hdr
CVE-2023-54214 8.8 HIGH Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix potential user-after-free
CVE-2023-54162 8.8 HIGH ksmbd: fix possible memory leak in smb2_lock()
CVE-2023-54262 8.8 HIGH net/mlx5e: Don't clone flow post action attributes second time
CVE-2023-54318 8.8 HIGH net/smc: use smc_lgr_list.lock to protect smc_lgr_list.list iterate in smcr_port_add
CVE-2022-50880 8.8 HIGH wifi: ath10k: add peer map clean up for peer delete in ath10k_sta_state()
CVE-2023-54250 8.2 HIGH ksmbd: avoid out of bounds access in decode_preauth_ctxt()
CVE-2023-54164 8.0 HIGH Bluetooth: ISO: fix iso_conn related locking and validity issues
CVE-2023-54206 7.8 HIGH net/sched: flower: fix filter idr initialization
CVE-2023-54216 7.8 HIGH net/mlx5e: TC, Fix using eswitch mapping in nic mode
CVE-2023-54210 7.8 HIGH Bluetooth: hci_sync: Avoid use-after-free in dbg for hci_remove_adv_monitor()
CVE-2023-54202 7.8 HIGH drm/i915: fix race condition UAF in i915_perf_add_config_ioctl

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