Bug 2402245 (CVE-2023-53661) - CVE-2023-53661 kernel: bnxt: avoid overflow in bnxt_get_nvram_directory()
Summary: CVE-2023-53661 kernel: bnxt: avoid overflow in bnxt_get_nvram_directory()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53661
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-07 16:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-17 09:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-07 16:05:14 UTC
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.


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