CVE-2023-53470

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.

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-53470 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2023-53470.

URL	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0020c16c8af7f4bc9503a2088fb30793b6771fac
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d02efe7f25158c93146e3bb827bc7bb3cd5e71a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a54903ff68ddb33b6463c94b4eb37fc584ef760
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5325f50de5b1433b27dda7ccff5cb7283722a3f1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c177dd465f5c1e5f242cdb9258826c591c257e9a
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100109-CVE-2023-53470-8c6a@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53470
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53470