Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53470

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-10-01 11:42:40
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:45:36
Assigner Linux
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ionic: catch failure from devlink_alloc Add a check for NULL on the alloc return. If devlink_alloc() fails and we try to use devlink_priv() on the NULL return, the kernel gets very unhappy and panics. With this fix, the driver load will still fail, but at least it won't panic the kernel.