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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated May 4, 2025

net: mdio: validate parameter addr in mdiobus_get_phy()

CVE-2023-53019

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: mdio: validate parameter addr in mdiobus_get_phy()

The caller may pass any value as addr, what may result in an out-of-bounds access to array mdio_map. One existing case is stmmac_init_phy() that may pass -1 as addr. Therefore validate addr before using it.

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