Bug 2396111 (CVE-2023-53335)

Summary: CVE-2023-53335 kernel: RDMA/cxgb4: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in pass_establish()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-17 15:01:52 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/cxgb4: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in pass_establish()

If get_ep_from_tid() fails to lookup non-NULL value for ep, ep is
dereferenced later regardless of whether it is empty.
This patch adds a simple sanity check to fix the issue.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-09-17 17:45:05 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091717-CVE-2023-53335-1e5d@gregkh/T