CVE-2023-53817

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui()During NVMeTCP Authentication a controller can trigger a kerneloops by specifying the 8192 bit Diffie Hellman group and passinga correctly sized, but zeroed Diffie Hellamn value.mpi_cmp_ui() was detecting this if the second parameter was 0,but 1 is passed from dh_is_pubkey_valid(). This causes the nullpointer u->d to be dereferenced towards the end of mpi_cmp_ui()

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234