CVE-2023-53238 Affecting kernel-obs-build package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.124.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELOBSBUILD-13611095
  • published17 Oct 2025
  • disclosed16 Oct 2025

Introduced: 16 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2023-53238  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-obs-build to version 5.14.21-150500.55.124.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-obs-build package and not the kernel-obs-build 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:

phy: hisilicon: Fix an out of bounds check in hisi_inno_phy_probe()

The size of array 'priv->ports[]' is INNO_PHY_PORT_NUM.

In the for loop, 'i' is used as the index for array 'priv->ports[]' with a check (i > INNO_PHY_PORT_NUM) which indicates that INNO_PHY_PORT_NUM is allowed value for 'i' in the same loop.

This > comparison needs to be changed to >=, otherwise it potentially leads to an out of bounds write on the next iteration through the loop

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1