CVE-2023-53456

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 3.2-4.14.325 - Information Disclosure via Unvalidated Netlink Attribute Length

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla4xxx: Add length check when parsing nlattrs There are three places that qla4xxx parses nlattrs: - qla4xxx_set_chap_entry() - qla4xxx_iface_set_param() - qla4xxx_sysfs_ddb_set_param() and each of them directly converts the nlattr to specific pointer of structure without length checking. This could be dangerous as those attributes are not validated and a malformed nlattr (e.g., length 0) could result in an OOB read that leaks heap dirty data. Add the nla_len check before accessing the nlattr data and return EINVAL if the length check fails.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (29)
linux/Kernel 3.2.0 - 4.14.326linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.295linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.257linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.132linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.53linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.195linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.4.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.5.0 - 6.5.3linux
Linux/Linux < 3.2
Linux/Linux 00c31889f7513e9ffa6b2b4de8ad6d7f59a61c80 - 25feffb3fbd51ae81d92c65cebc0e932663828b3
... and 19 more
Published Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026