Bug 2400754 (CVE-2023-53456) - CVE-2023-53456 kernel: scsi: qla4xxx: Add length check when parsing nlattrs
Summary: CVE-2023-53456 kernel: scsi: qla4xxx: Add length check when parsing nlattrs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53456
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 17:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:05:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla4xxx: Add length check when parsing nlattrs

There are three places that qla4xxx parses nlattrs:

 - qla4xxx_set_chap_entry()

 - qla4xxx_iface_set_param()

 - qla4xxx_sysfs_ddb_set_param()

and each of them directly converts the nlattr to specific pointer of
structure without length checking. This could be dangerous as those
attributes are not validated and a malformed nlattr (e.g., length 0) could
result in an OOB read that leaks heap dirty data.

Add the nla_len check before accessing the nlattr data and return EINVAL if
the length check fails.

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-10-01 20:53:26 UTC Comment hidden (spam)

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