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CVE-2023-53521 (GCVE-0-2023-53521)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:46 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:46
VLAI
Title
scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_intf_remove()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_intf_remove() A fix for: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ses_intf_remove+0x23f/0x270 [ses] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88a10d32e5d8 by task rmmod/12013 When edev->components is zero, accessing edev->component[0] members is wrong.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168 , < 76f7050537476ac062ec23a544fbca8270f2d08b (git)
Affected: 9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168 , < 87e47be38d205df338c52ead43f23b2864567423 (git)
Affected: 9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168 , < 40af9a6deed723485e05b7d3255a28750692e8db (git)
Affected: 9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168 , < 8f9542cad6c27297c8391de3a659f0b7948495d0 (git)
Affected: 9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168 , < 0595cdb587726b4f0fa780eb7462e3679d141e82 (git)
Affected: 9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168 , < 82143faf01dda831b89eccef60c39ef8575ab08a (git)
Affected: 9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168 , < 2fb1fa8425cce2dc4dce298275d22d7077694b73 (git)
Affected: 9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168 , < 578797f0c8cbc2e3ec5fc0dab87087b4c7073686 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.25
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.25 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_intf_remove()",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2023/cve-2023-53521.json",
      "version": "3"
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      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2023-53521",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2023-53521.json",
      "version": "34"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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