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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2023-53817

crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui()

Description

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()

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 to < fde791e8a96a64ea7b0ad2440e43586447a209c6affected
  • 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 to < ae63e84ffda74267bf7277c38415ba38389229a0affected
  • 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 to < 61f5453e9706e99713825594e0c8f9031485fb5faffected
  • 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 to < 0fc7147c694394f8a8cbc19570c6bc918cac0906affected
  • 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 to < 67589d247909043e94d2dd5fb590958e0f99d58daffected
  • 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 to < d3ad023a39f1127dcfd331c562673355dc078650affected
  • 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 to < 12ac013ad7ff0df066451e825801d805095b3776affected
  • 12f008b6dc5ff1c822fdb2198d20e3dbdc92f3f5 to < 9e47a758b70167c9301d2b44d2569f86c7796f2daffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 3.7affected
  • 0 to < 3.7unaffected
  • 4.14.326 to ≤ 4.14.*unaffected
  • 4.19.295 to ≤ 4.19.*unaffected
  • 5.4.257 to ≤ 5.4.*unaffected
  • 5.10.197 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.133 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.55 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.5.5 to ≤ 6.5.*unaffected
  • 6.6 to ≤ *unaffected

References