CVEs from 2023
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critical
critical 240
high
high 1,530
medium
medium 1,393
low
low 32
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% with KEV
2.7%
% with exploit
3.5%
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| CVE | Severity | CVSS | Risk | Flags | OS | Vendor | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-53125 | medium | — | 5.5 | 9mo ago | Moderate: kernel security update | |||
| CVE-2023-52933 | medium | — | 5.5 | 11mo ago | Moderate: kernel security update | |||
| CVE-2023-24824 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | RHSA-2025:8427: pandoc security update (Moderate) | |||
| CVE-2023-53260 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_permission() Following process: P1 P2 path_lookupat lin… | |||
| CVE-2023-53287 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: cdns3: Put the cdns set active part outside the spin lock The device may be scheduled during the resume process, so this can… | |||
| CVE-2023-46751 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | RHSA-2025:4362: ghostscript security update (Moderate) | |||
| CVE-2023-53196 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak Function dwc3_qcom_probe() allocates memory for resource structure which is pointed by… | |||
| CVE-2023-54278 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/vmem: split pages when debug pagealloc is enabled Since commit bb1520d581a3 ("s390/mm: start kernel with DAT enabled") the k… | |||
| CVE-2023-53261 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer->pointer There are memory leaks reported by kmemleak: ... unreferenced object 0xffff002… | |||
| CVE-2023-54313 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu() Following process: P1 P2 path_openat link_… | |||
| CVE-2023-53066 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: qed/qed_sriov: guard against NULL derefs from qed_iov_get_vf_info We have to make sure that the info returned by the helper is va… | |||
| CVE-2023-52672 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage Commit c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") a regression wa… | |||
| CVE-2023-53989 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: mm: fix VA-range sanity check Both create_mapping_noalloc() and update_mapping_prot() sanity-check their 'virt' parameter,… | |||
| CVE-2023-53654 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-af: Add validation before accessing cgx and lmac with the addition of new MAC blocks like CN10K RPM and CN10KB RPM_USX,… | |||
| CVE-2023-53117 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: prevent out-of-bounds array speculation when closing a file descriptor Google-Bug-Id: 114199369 | |||
| CVE-2023-52917 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | RHSA-2025:6966: kernel security update (Moderate) | |||
| CVE-2023-53595 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: mcs: Fix NULL pointer dereferences When system is rebooted after creating macsec interface below NULL pointer deref… | |||
| CVE-2023-54322 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: set __exception_irq_entry with __irq_entry as a default filter_irq_stacks() is supposed to cut entries which are related i… | |||
| CVE-2023-54230 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: amba: bus: fix refcount leak commit 5de1540b7bc4 ("drivers/amba: create devices from device tree") increases the refcount of of_n… | |||
| CVE-2023-54117 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/dcssblk: fix kernel crash with list_add corruption Commit fb08a1908cb1 ("dax: simplify the dax_device <-> gendisk associatio… | |||
| CVE-2023-54089 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_pmem: add the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio When doing mkfs.xfs on a pmem device, the following warning was -------… | |||
| CVE-2023-53859 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/idle: mark arch_cpu_idle() noinstr linux-next commit ("cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()") adds a new warning … | |||
| CVE-2023-53568 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/zcrypt: don't leak memory if dev_set_name() fails When dev_set_name() fails, zcdn_create() doesn't free the newly allocated … | |||
| CVE-2023-53555 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/core: initialize damo_filter->list from damos_new_filter() damos_new_filter() is not initializing the list field of newl… | |||
| CVE-2023-53519 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: v4l2-mem2mem: add lock to protect parameter num_rdy Getting below error when using KCSAN to check the driver. Adding lock … | |||
| CVE-2023-53510 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ufs: core: Fix handling of lrbp->cmd ufshcd_queuecommand() may be called two times in a row for a SCSI command before it is… | |||
| CVE-2023-6693 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | A stack based buffer overflow was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This issue occurs when flushing TX in the virtio_net_flush_tx function if guest features VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, VIRTIO_F_V… | |||
| CVE-2023-53133 | medium | 5.5 | 5.5 | 1y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, sockmap: Fix an infinite loop error when len is 0 in tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser() When the buffer length of the recvmsg system c… | |||
| CVE-2023-52490 | medium | — | 5.5 | 1y ago | Moderate: kernel security update | |||
| CVE-2023-41053 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | Moderate: redis:7 security update | |||
| CVE-2023-53687 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() when iterating clk When the best clk is searched, we itera… | |||
| CVE-2023-52661 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/tegra: rgb: Fix missing clk_put() in the error handling paths of tegra_dc_rgb_probe() If clk_get_sys(..., "pll_d2_out0") fail… | |||
| CVE-2023-52585 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Fix possible NULL dereference in amdgpu_ras_query_error_status_helper() Return invalid error code -EINVAL for invalid… | |||
| CVE-2023-52814 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Fix potential null pointer derefernce The amdgpu_ras_get_context may return NULL if device not support ras feature, s… | |||
| CVE-2023-45866 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | RHSA-2024:11154: bluez security update (Moderate) | |||
| CVE-2023-52477 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: hub: Guard against accesses to uninitialized BOS descriptors Many functions in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and drivers/usb/core/h… | |||
| CVE-2023-52819 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: Fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds for Polaris and Tonga For pptable structs that use flexible array sizes, use flexibl… | |||
| CVE-2023-52831 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU If a system has isolated CPUs via the "isolcpus=" command line parameter, th… | |||
| CVE-2023-52833 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btusb: Add date->evt_skb is NULL check fix crash because of null pointers [ 6104.969662] BUG: kernel NULL pointer der… | |||
| CVE-2023-53719 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: arc_uart: fix of_iomap leak in `arc_serial_probe` Smatch reports: drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c:631 arc_serial_probe() w… | |||
| CVE-2023-53858 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() in case of error If clk_get_rate() fails, the clk that has… | |||
| CVE-2023-52462 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix check for attempt to corrupt spilled pointer When register is spilled onto a stack as a 1/2/4-byte register, we set slot… | |||
| CVE-2023-6681 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | Moderate: python-jwcrypto security update | |||
| CVE-2023-53768 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regmap-irq: Fix out-of-bounds access when allocating config buffers When allocating the 2D array for handling IRQ type registers … | |||
| CVE-2023-52637 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: j1939: Fix UAF in j1939_sk_match_filter during setsockopt(SO_J1939_FILTER) Lock jsk->sk to prevent UAF when setsockopt(..., … | |||
| CVE-2023-52867 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/radeon: possible buffer overflow Buffer 'afmt_status' of size 6 could overflow, since index 'afmt_idx' is checked after acces… | |||
| CVE-2023-52869 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pstore/platform: Add check for kstrdup Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error if it fails in order to a… | |||
| CVE-2023-51580 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | Moderate: bluez security update | |||
| CVE-2023-51589 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | RHSA-2025:4043: bluez security update (Moderate) | |||
| CVE-2023-53391 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: shmem: use ramfs_kill_sb() for kill_sb method of ramfs-based tmpfs As the ramfs-based tmpfs uses ramfs_init_fs_context() for the … | |||
| CVE-2023-54010 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED in acpi_db_display_objects ACPICA commit 0d5f467d6a0ba852ea3aad68663cbc… | |||
| CVE-2023-52902 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nommu: fix memory leak in do_mmap() error path The preallocation of the maple tree nodes may leak if the error path to "error_jus… | |||
| CVE-2023-52758 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | RHSA-2024:9315: kernel security update (Moderate) | |||
| CVE-2023-53704 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: imx: clk-imx8mp: improve error handling in imx8mp_clocks_probe() Replace of_iomap() and kzalloc() with devm_of_iomap() and d… | |||
| CVE-2023-53708 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: x86: s2idle: Catch multiple ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE objects If a badly constructed firmware includes multiple `ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE`… | |||
| CVE-2023-52932 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/swapfile: add cond_resched() in get_swap_pages() The softlockup still occurs in get_swap_pages() under memory pressure. 64 CP… | |||
| CVE-2023-52935 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/khugepaged: fix ->anon_vma race If an ->anon_vma is attached to the VMA, collapse_and_free_pmd() requires it to be locked. Pa… | |||
| CVE-2023-54172 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/hyperv: Disable IBT when hypercall page lacks ENDBR instruction On hardware that supports Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT), Hyp… | |||
| CVE-2023-7250 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | RHSA-2024:4241: iperf3 security update (Moderate) | |||
| CVE-2023-53230 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix warning in cifs_smb3_do_mount() This fixes the following warning reported by kernel test robot fs/smb/client/… | |||
| CVE-2023-54118 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: sc16is7xx: setup GPIO controller later in probe The GPIO controller component of the sc16is7xx driver is setup too early,… | |||
| CVE-2023-54113 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: dump vmalloc memory info safely Currently, for double invoke call_rcu(), will dump rcu_head objects memory info, if the obje… | |||
| CVE-2023-53068 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: lan78xx: Limit packet length to skb->len Packet length retrieved from descriptor may be larger than the actual socket b… | |||
| CVE-2023-54095 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/iommu: Fix notifiers being shared by PCI and VIO buses fail_iommu_setup() registers the fail_iommu_bus_notifier struct to… | |||
| CVE-2023-53220 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: az6007: Fix null-ptr-deref in az6007_i2c_xfer() In az6007_i2c_xfer, msg is controlled by user. When msg[i].buf is null and… | |||
| CVE-2023-54301 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250_bcm7271: fix leak in `brcmuart_probe` Smatch reports: drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm7271.c:1120 brcmuart_probe() w… | |||
| CVE-2023-54299 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: bus: verify partner exists in typec_altmode_attention Some usb hubs will negotiate DisplayPort Alt mode with the devi… | |||
| CVE-2023-54271 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-cgroup: Fix NULL deref caused by blkg_policy_data being installed before init blk-iocost sometimes causes the following crash… | |||
| CVE-2023-54268 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: debugobjects: Don't wake up kswapd from fill_pool() syzbot is reporting a lockdep warning in fill_pool() because the allocation f… | |||
| CVE-2023-53059 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/chrome: cros_ec_chardev: fix kernel data leak from ioctl It is possible to peep kernel page's data by providing larger `… | |||
| CVE-2023-38709 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities | |||
| CVE-2023-53173 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: pcn_uart: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it… | |||
| CVE-2023-53674 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: Fix memory leak in devm_clk_notifier_register() devm_clk_notifier_register() allocates a devres resource for clk notifier bu… | |||
| CVE-2023-53697 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu() Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in fun… | |||
| CVE-2023-41910 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | Moderate: lldpd security update | |||
| CVE-2023-53291 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu/rcuscale: Stop kfree_scale_thread thread(s) after unloading rcuscale Running the 'kfree_rcu_test' test case [1] results in a … | |||
| CVE-2023-54298 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: intel: quark_dts: fix error pointer dereference If alloc_soc_dts() fails, then we can just return. Trying to free "soc_… | |||
| CVE-2023-53752 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: deal with integer overflows in kmalloc_reserve() Blamed commit changed: ptr = kmalloc(size); if (ptr) size = k… | |||
| CVE-2023-54291 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity callback can be called with NULL value as cpu_mask when deleting t… | |||
| CVE-2023-53470 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ionic: catch failure from devlink_alloc Add a check for NULL on the alloc return. If devlink_alloc() fails and we try to use dev… | |||
| CVE-2023-53662 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities | |||
| CVE-2023-53997 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: of: fix double-free on unregistration Since commit 3d439b1a2ad3 ("thermal/core: Alloc-copy-free the thermal zone paramet… | |||
| CVE-2023-54194 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: use kvmalloc_array/kvfree instead of kmalloc_array/kfree The call stack shown below is a scenario in the Linux 4.19 kernel… | |||
| CVE-2023-53178 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: fix zswap writeback race condition The zswap writeback mechanism can cause a race condition resulting in memory corruption, w… | |||
| CVE-2023-53702 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/crypto: use vector instructions only if available for ChaCha20 Commit 349d03ffd5f6 ("crypto: s390 - add crypto library inter… | |||
| CVE-2023-53731 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlink: fix potential deadlock in netlink_set_err() syzbot reported a possible deadlock in netlink_set_err() [1] A similar issu… | |||
| CVE-2023-51596 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | Moderate: bluez security update | |||
| CVE-2023-54019 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/psi: use kernfs polling functions for PSI trigger polling Destroying psi trigger in cgroup_file_release causes UAF issues w… | |||
| CVE-2023-54136 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: sprd: Fix DMA buffer leak issue Release DMA buffer when _probe() returns failure to avoid memory leak. | |||
| CVE-2023-51764 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | Postfix through 3.8.5 allows SMTP smuggling unless configured with smtpd_data_restrictions=reject_unauth_pipelining and smtpd_discard_ehlo_keywords=chunking (or certain other options that exist in re… | |||
| CVE-2023-53264 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: imx: clk-imxrt1050: fix memory leak in imxrt1050_clocks_probe Use devm_of_iomap() instead of of_iomap() to automatically han… | |||
| CVE-2023-54066 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-usb-v2: gl861: Fix null-ptr-deref in gl861_i2c_master_xfer In gl861_i2c_master_xfer, msg is controlled by user. When m… | |||
| CVE-2023-53249 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: imx: clk-imx8mn: fix memory leak in imx8mn_clocks_probe Use devm_of_iomap() instead of of_iomap() to automatically handle th… | |||
| CVE-2023-53176 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250: Reinit port->pm on port specific driver unbind When we unbind a serial port hardware specific 8250 driver, the gene… | |||
| CVE-2023-54146 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kexec: Fix double-free of elf header buffer After b3e34a47f989 ("x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer"), freei… | |||
| CVE-2023-54083 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: tegra: xusb: Clear the driver reference in usb-phy dev For the dual-role port, it will assign the phy dev to usb-phy dev and… | |||
| CVE-2023-54198 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | 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_dri… | |||
| CVE-2023-54267 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: Rework lppaca_shared_proc() to avoid DEBUG_PREEMPT lppaca_shared_proc() takes a pointer to the lppaca which is t… | |||
| CVE-2023-52697 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw_rt_sdca_jack_common: ctx->headset_codec_dev = NULL sof_sdw_rt_sdca_jack_exit() are used by different codecs,… | |||
| CVE-2023-52696 | medium | — | 5.5 | 2y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_powercap_init() kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory w… |