CVE-2023-53817 (GCVE-0-2023-53817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 00:01 – Updated: 2026-01-05 10:32
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Title
crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui() During NVMeTCP Authentication a controller can trigger a kernel oops by specifying the 8192 bit Diffie Hellman group and passing a correctly sized, but zeroed Diffie Hellamn value. mpi_cmp_ui() was detecting this if the second parameter was 0, but 1 is passed from dh_is_pubkey_valid(). This causes the null pointer u->d to be dereferenced towards the end of mpi_cmp_ui()
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Linux Linux Affected: 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 , < fde791e8a96a64ea7b0ad2440e43586447a209c6 (git)
Affected: 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 , < ae63e84ffda74267bf7277c38415ba38389229a0 (git)
Affected: 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 , < 61f5453e9706e99713825594e0c8f9031485fb5f (git)
Affected: 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 , < 0fc7147c694394f8a8cbc19570c6bc918cac0906 (git)
Affected: 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 , < 67589d247909043e94d2dd5fb590958e0f99d58d (git)
Affected: 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 , < d3ad023a39f1127dcfd331c562673355dc078650 (git)
Affected: 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 , < 12ac013ad7ff0df066451e825801d805095b3776 (git)
Affected: 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 , < 9e47a758b70167c9301d2b44d2569f86c7796f2d (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.326 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.295 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.257 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.197 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.133 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.55 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.5 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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