CVE-2023-53521 (GCVE-0-2023-53521)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:46 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:46
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 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) |
guessed | |
| 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) |
guessed |
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Nomenclature
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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