FKIE_CVE-2023-53451

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-01 12:15 - Updated: 2026-01-16 21:24
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02405f4023866ae91a611b5b85cb2e074ec2de5aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bea9c1c983152c5411f5a2f1113cb790ce1389dPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/464ea494a40c6e3e0e8f91dd325408aaf21515baPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f90a8b0481615622bd0558aa8cf361bea872045Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a52a2e14fe866541bbc0033058e44bf0bf0c580Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af7affc0f6b82a5bde430fc4f0dcf70963442fbcPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce2cdbe530b0066bae1f98dbab590a232d507eaaPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee4c9a93238b9ce3703942500cb1aeacf77090d2Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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