VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2025· Updated Jan 5, 2026

bnxt: avoid overflow in bnxt_get_nvram_directory()

CVE-2023-53661

Description

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

bnxt: avoid overflow in bnxt_get_nvram_directory()

The value of an arithmetic expression is subject of possible overflow due to a failure to cast operands to a larger data type before performing arithmetic. Used macro for multiplication instead operator for avoiding overflow.

Found by Security Code and Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy2 versions
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    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 4.4

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