CVE-2023-53044

Name	CVE-2023-53044
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure Check alloc_precpu()'s return value and return an error from dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if dm_stats_init() does. Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup() even if dm-stats isn't being actively used.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, 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)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.244-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.153-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.43-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.48-1	fixed
	forky, sid	6.16.12-2	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.178-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.1.25-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/d3aa3e060c4a80827eb801fc448debc9daa7c46b (6.3-rc4)