CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53661

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-07 Modified 2026-10-28 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-07
Last modified
2026-10-28
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bnxt: avoid overflow in bnxt_get_nvram_directory() The value of an arithmetic expression is subject of possible overflow due to a failure to cast operands to a larger data type before performing arithmetic. Used macro for multiplication instead operator for avoiding overflow. Found by Security Code and Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.4 < 5.15.113) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.30) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.3.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References