CVE-2023-53066

Updated on 02 May 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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 valid before using it.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+8 more)

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 valid before using it.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool.

Fixes