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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-53066: Security patch for kernel (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2025
Added
Jun 23, 2025
Modified
May 20, 2026

Description

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

qed/qed_sriov: guard against NULL derefs from qed_iov_get_vf_info

We have to make sure that the info returned by the helper is valid
before using it.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE
static analysis tool.

Solutions

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