CVE-2023-53038 (GCVE-0-2023-53038)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:54 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:37
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Title
scsi: lpfc: Check kzalloc() in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Check kzalloc() in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read() If kzalloc() fails in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read(), then we rely on lpfc_read_object()'s routine to NULL check pdata. Currently, an early return error is thrown from lpfc_read_object() to protect us from NULL ptr dereference, but the errno code is -ENODEV. Change the errno code to a more appropriate -ENOMEM.
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Linux Linux Affected: 72df8a452883b0be334396acba07df77c3c3f6c7 , < 67b8343998b84418bc5b5206aa01fe9b461a80ef (git)
Affected: 72df8a452883b0be334396acba07df77c3c3f6c7 , < 4829a1e1171536978b240a1438789c2e4d5c9715 (git)
Affected: 72df8a452883b0be334396acba07df77c3c3f6c7 , < 908dd9a0853a88155a5a36018c7e2b32ccf20379 (git)
Affected: 72df8a452883b0be334396acba07df77c3c3f6c7 , < 312320b0e0ec21249a17645683fe5304d796aec1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.105 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.22 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.9 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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