CVE-2023-53066 Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.110.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELMACROS-10571010
  • published1 Jul 2025
  • disclosed30 Jun 2025

Introduced: 30 Jun 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-macros to version 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-macros package and not the kernel-macros package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

qed/qed_sriov: guard against NULL derefs from qed_iov_get_vf_info

We have to make sure that the info returned by the helper is valid before using it.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1