# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53451"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:22.857Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:15.706Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53451"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53451.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53451"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference\n\nKlocwork tool reported 'cur_dsd' may be dereferenced.  Add fix to validate\npointer before dereferencing the pointer."
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