Bug 2420277 (CVE-2023-53817) - CVE-2023-53817 kernel: crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui()
Summary: CVE-2023-53817 kernel: crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53817
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 01:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-10 05:05 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 01:05:20 UTC
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()


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