CVE-2023-53150 scsi: qla2xxx: Pointer may be dereferenced

What is CVE-2023-53150?

CVE-2023-53150 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Pointer may be dereferenced

Klocwork tool reported pointer 'rport' returned from call to function fc_bsg_to_rport() may be NULL and will be dereferenced.

Add a fix to validate rport before dereferencing.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53150?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53150?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2023-53150 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53150 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-53150, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53150, GHSA-j688-45pj-fx7v, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53150.