CVE-2023-53803 (GCVE-0-2023-53803)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 00:00 – Updated: 2026-10-15 21:41
VLAI
Title
scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process() A fix for: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process+0x949/0xe30 [ses] Read of size 1 at addr ffff88a1b043a451 by task systemd-udevd/3271 Checking after (and before in next loop) addl_desc_ptr[1] is sufficient, we expect the size to be sanitized before first access to addl_desc_ptr[1]. Make sure we don't walk beyond end of page.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:37 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245 , < da1a955c48a16e16e925d6544793914e52a6fa51 (git)
Affected: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245 , < 9e5c7d52085b8c84bc82a261580f0eb170039325 (git)
Affected: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245 , < 467afb1dd630d8c6d172bd6cacc125199b5f4f2d (git)
Affected: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245 , < e4dd25da784b2e07dbfbf04509afa4c5a1375227 (git)
Affected: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245 , < 2b28a7d261cb309912596d6a2d383ca370483527 (git)
Affected: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245 , < 0dfe68394cbe1d4fe579fb325ecc813c50528c5a (git)
Affected: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245 , < 799e8dd2022d2e13f0c5c1906b40ceca07a23349 (git)
Affected: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245 , < 9b4f5028e493cb353a5c8f5c45073eeea0303abd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.32
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.32 (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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