Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-53470
CVE-2023-53470
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.
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5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0020c16c8af7f4bc9503a2088fb30793b6771facnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d02efe7f25158c93146e3bb827bc7bb3cd5e71anvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a54903ff68ddb33b6463c94b4eb37fc584ef760nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5325f50de5b1433b27dda7ccff5cb7283722a3f1nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c177dd465f5c1e5f242cdb9258826c591c257e9anvdPatch
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