CVE-2023-53038

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved. The issue is related to the lpfc sli4 cgn params read() function, where a failed kzalloc() call could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. The lpfc read object() function returns an error to prevent this, but the error code has been changed from -ENODEV to a more appropriate -ENOMEM.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.