Upstream information

CVE-2023-53661 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: New

This issue is currently rated as having not set severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1251320 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Oct 7 20:00:23 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 8 18:14:11 2025