CVE-2023-53150: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.14.322 (fixed in 4.14.322); from 4.15, before 4.19.291 (fixed in 4.19.291); from 4.20, before 5.4.251 (fixed in 5.4.251); from 5.5, before 5.10.188 (fixed in 5.10.188); from 5.11, before 5.15.121 (fixed in 5.15.121); from 5.16, before 6.1.40 (fixed in 6.1.40); …

Published 2025-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.