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CVE-2023-53150 (GCVE-0-2023-53150)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:39
VLAI
Title
scsi: qla2xxx: Pointer may be dereferenced
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Pointer may be dereferenced Klocwork tool reported pointer 'rport' returned from call to function fc_bsg_to_rport() may be NULL and will be dereferenced. Add a fix to validate rport before dereferencing.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7c3df1320e5e875478775e78d01a09aee96b8abe , < 005961bd8f066fe931104f67c34ebfcc7f240099 (git)
Affected: 7c3df1320e5e875478775e78d01a09aee96b8abe , < a69125a3ce88d9a386872034e7664b30cc4bcbed (git)
Affected: 7c3df1320e5e875478775e78d01a09aee96b8abe , < 3f22f9ddbb29dba369daddb084be3bacf1587529 (git)
Affected: 7c3df1320e5e875478775e78d01a09aee96b8abe , < 5addd62586a94a572359418464ce0ae12fa46187 (git)
Affected: 7c3df1320e5e875478775e78d01a09aee96b8abe , < 0715da51391d223bf4981e28346770edea7eeb74 (git)
Affected: 7c3df1320e5e875478775e78d01a09aee96b8abe , < b06d1b525364bbcf4929b4b35d81945b10dc9883 (git)
Affected: 7c3df1320e5e875478775e78d01a09aee96b8abe , < 22b1d7c8bb59c3376430a8bad5840194b12bf29a (git)
Affected: 7c3df1320e5e875478775e78d01a09aee96b8abe , < 00eca15319d9ce8c31cdf22f32a3467775423df4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.322 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.291 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.40 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.5 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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