CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-53335

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.45%

37th percentile - higher than 37% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the RDMA/cxgb4 driver has a potential NULL pointer dereference in pass_establish(). If get_ep_from_tid() fails to find an entry, the ep pointer is later dereferenced without a check. The fix adds a simple sanity check.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to a system crash (panic) on invalid requests, potentially exploited for DoS attacks.

Recommendation

Install the Linux kernel patch that adds a check in pass_establish() to prevent NULL dereference.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cxgb4: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in pass_establish() If get_ep_from_tid() fails to lookup non-NULL value for ep, ep is dereferenced later regardless of whether it is empty. This patch adds a simple sanity check to fix the issue. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

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