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Red Hat: CVE-2023-53034: kernel: ntb_hw_switchtec: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in switchtec_ntb_mw_set_trans (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 16, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

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

ntb_hw_switchtec: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in switchtec_ntb_mw_set_trans

There is a kernel API ntb_mw_clear_trans() would pass 0 to both addr and
size. This would make xlate_pos negative.

[ 23.734156] switchtec switchtec0: MW 0: part 0 addr 0x0000000000000000 size 0x0000000000000000
[ 23.734158] ================================================================================
[ 23.734172] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/ntb/hw/mscc/ntb_hw_switchtec.c:293:7
[ 23.734418] shift exponent -1 is negative

Ensuring xlate_pos is a positive or zero before BIT.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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