NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers (opens in a new tab)
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- published5 May 2025
- disclosed2 May 2025
Introduced: 2 May 2025
CVE-2023-53124 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: mpt3sas: Fix NULL pointer access in mpt3sas_transport_port_add()
Port is allocated by sas_port_alloc_num() and rphy is allocated by either sas_end_device_alloc() or sas_expander_alloc(), all of which may return NULL. So we need to check the rphy to avoid possible NULL pointer access.
If sas_rphy_add() returned with failure, rphy is set to NULL. We would access the rphy in the following lines which would also result NULL pointer access.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53124
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/090305c36185c0547e4441d4c08f1cf096b32134
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f0c2f70d9929208d8427ec72c3ed91e2251e289
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9937f784a608944107dcc2ba9a9c3333f8330b9e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26c775ccc4cfe46f9b718b51bd24313053c7e0b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5e5bbb3fa5f8412e96c5eda7f4a4af6241d6bd3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3c57724f1569311e4b81e98fad0931028b9bdcd