CVE-2023-53335: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cxgb4: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in pass_establish() If get_ep_from_tid() fails to lookup non-NULL value for ep, ep is dereferenced later regardless of whether it is empty. This patch adds a simple sanity check to fix the issue. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.7, before 5.15.99 (fixed in 5.15.99); from 5.16, before 6.1.16 (fixed in 6.1.16); from 6.2, before 6.2.3 (fixed in 6.2.3)

Published 2025-09-17. Last modified 2026-08-04.