{"id":"CVE-2023-53119","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"nfc: pn533: initialize struct pn533_out_arg properly","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: pn533: initialize struct pn533_out_arg properly\n\nstruct pn533_out_arg used as a temporary context for out_urb is not\ninitialized properly. Its uninitialized 'phy' field can be dereferenced in\nerror cases inside pn533_out_complete() callback function. It causes the\nfollowing failure:\n\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc3-next-20230110-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022\nRIP: 0010:pn533_out_complete.cold+0x15/0x44 drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c:441\nCall Trace:\n <IRQ>\n __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x2b6/0x5c0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1671\n usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x384/0x430 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1754\n dummy_timer+0x1203/0x32d0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988\n call_timer_fn+0x1da/0x800 kernel/time/timer.c:1700\n expire_timers+0x234/0x330 kernel/time/timer.c:1751\n __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2022 [inline]\n __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1995 [inline]\n run_timer_softirq+0x326/0x910 kernel/time/timer.c:2035\n __do_softirq+0x1fb/0xaf6 kernel/softirq.c:571\n invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:445 [inline]\n __irq_exit_rcu+0x123/0x180 kernel/softirq.c:650\n irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:662\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x97/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1107\n\nInitialize the field with the pn533_usb_phy currently used.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.","publishedAt":"2025-05-02T15:55:56.818Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-23T15:28:06.353Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux 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pn533: initialize struct pn533_out_arg properly","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: pn533: initialize struct pn533_out_arg properly\n\nstruct pn533_out_arg used as a temporary context for out_urb is not\ninitialized properly. Its uninitialized 'phy' field can be dereferenced in\nerror cases inside pn533_out_complete() callback function. It causes the\nfollowing failure:\n\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc3-next-20230110-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022\nRIP: 0010:pn533_out_complete.cold+0x15/0x44 drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c:441\nCall Trace:\n <IRQ>\n __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x2b6/0x5c0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1671\n usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x384/0x430 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1754\n dummy_timer+0x1203/0x32d0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988\n call_timer_fn+0x1da/0x800 kernel/time/timer.c:1700\n expire_timers+0x234/0x330 kernel/time/timer.c:1751\n __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2022 [inline]\n __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1995 [inline]\n run_timer_softirq+0x326/0x910 kernel/time/timer.c:2035\n __do_softirq+0x1fb/0xaf6 kernel/softirq.c:571\n 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