CVE-2023-52616

Name	CVE-2023-52616
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init When the mpi_ec_ctx structure is initialized, some fields are not cleared, causing a crash when referencing the field when the structure was released. Initially, this issue was ignored because memory for mpi_ec_ctx is allocated with the __GFP_ZERO flag. For example, this error will be triggered when calculating the Za value for SM2 separately.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.205-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.85-1	fixed
	trixie	6.6.15-2	fixed
	sid	6.7.12-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	buster	(not affected)
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.82-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.6.15-1

[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/ba3c5574203034781ac4231acf117da917efcd2a (6.8-rc1)