CVE-2023-53451

Updated on 01 Oct 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:

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Klocwork tool reported ‘cur_dsd’ may be dereferenced. Add fix to validate pointer before dereferencing the pointer.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+13 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Klocwork tool reported ‘cur_dsd’ may be dereferenced. Add fix to validate pointer before dereferencing the pointer.

Fixes