CVE-2023-53038

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-05-02 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Check kzalloc() in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read() If kzalloc() fails in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read(), then we rely on lpfc_read_object()'s routine to NULL check pdata. Currently, an early return error is thrown from lpfc_read_object() to protect us from NULL ptr dereference, but the errno code is -ENODEV. Change the errno code to a more appropriate -ENOMEM.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (7)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 72df8a452883b0be334396acba07df77c3c3f6c7 < 67b8343998b84418bc5b5206aa01fe9b461a80ef
Linux Linux 72df8a452883b0be334396acba07df77c3c3f6c7 < 4829a1e1171536978b240a1438789c2e4d5c9715
Linux Linux 72df8a452883b0be334396acba07df77c3c3f6c7 < 908dd9a0853a88155a5a36018c7e2b32ccf20379
Linux Linux 72df8a452883b0be334396acba07df77c3c3f6c7 < 312320b0e0ec21249a17645683fe5304d796aec1
Linux Linux 5.15
linux linux_kernel < 5.15.105
linux linux_kernel 6.3

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.20%
Raw Score 0.002020
Percentile 10.3%
Date 2026-11-06

EPSS Trend

2026-11-06
0.00202
2026-11-05
0.00202

Intelligence Sources

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