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CVE-2023-54289 (GCVE-0-2023-54289)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:59
VLAI
Title
scsi: qedf: Fix NULL dereference in error handling
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qedf: Fix NULL dereference in error handling Smatch reported: drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c:3056 qedf_alloc_global_queues() warn: missing unwind goto? At this point in the function, nothing has been allocated so we can return directly. In particular the "qedf->global_queues" have not been allocated so calling qedf_free_global_queues() will lead to a NULL dereference when we check if (!gl[i]) and "gl" is NULL.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 61d8658b4a435eac729966cc94cdda077a8df5cd , < 961c8370c5f7e80a267680476e1bcff34bffe71a (git)
Affected: 61d8658b4a435eac729966cc94cdda077a8df5cd , < ac64019e4d4b08c23edb117e0b2590985e33de1d (git)
Affected: 61d8658b4a435eac729966cc94cdda077a8df5cd , < b1de5105d29b145b727b797e2d5de071ab3a7ca1 (git)
Affected: 61d8658b4a435eac729966cc94cdda077a8df5cd , < c316bde418af4c2a9df51149ed01d1bd8ca5bebf (git)
Affected: 61d8658b4a435eac729966cc94cdda077a8df5cd , < 08c001c1e9444a3046c79a99aa93ac48073b18cc (git)
Affected: 61d8658b4a435eac729966cc94cdda077a8df5cd , < 271c9b2eb60149afbeab28cb39e52f73bde9900c (git)
Affected: 61d8658b4a435eac729966cc94cdda077a8df5cd , < f025312b089474a54e4859f3453771314d9e3d4f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.13 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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