{"id":70173,"date":"2025-09-15T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2023-53238-phy-hisilicon-fix-an-out-of-bounds-check-in-hisi_inno_phy_probe\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:02:22","slug":"cve-2023-53238-phy-hisilicon-fix-an-out-of-bounds-check-in-hisi_inno_phy_probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2023-53238-phy-hisilicon-fix-an-out-of-bounds-check-in-hisi_inno_phy_probe\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2023-53238 &#8211; phy: hisilicon: Fix an out of bounds check in hisi_inno_phy_probe()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2023-53238<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Sept. 15, 2025, 2:22 p.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>phy: hisilicon: Fix an out of bounds check in hisi_inno_phy_probe()<\/p>\n<p>The size of array &#8216;priv-&gt;ports[]&#8217; is INNO_PHY_PORT_NUM.<\/p>\n<p>In the for loop, &#8216;i&#8217; is used as the index for array &#8216;priv-&gt;ports[]&#8217;<br \/>\nwith a check (i &gt; INNO_PHY_PORT_NUM) which indicates that<br \/>\nINNO_PHY_PORT_NUM is allowed value for &#8216;i&#8217; in the same loop.<\/p>\n<p>This &gt; comparison needs to be changed to &gt;=, otherwise it potentially leads<br \/>\nto an out of bounds write on the next iteration through the loop<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 0.0 | NA<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2023-53238 Published : Sept. 15, 2025, 2:22 p.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: hisilicon: Fix an out of bounds check in hisi_inno_phy_probe() The size of array &#8216;priv-&gt;ports[]&#8217; is INNO_PHY_PORT_NUM. In the for loop, &#8216;i&#8217; is used as the index for array &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}