CVE-2023-53117 (GCVE-0-2023-53117)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
fs: prevent out-of-bounds array speculation when closing a file descriptor
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: prevent out-of-bounds array speculation when closing a file descriptor
Google-Bug-Id: 114199369
Severity
7.1 (High)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f31cd5da636682caea424fa1c22679016cbfc16b
(git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 3d5d9501b634fd268eb56428cda92cd317752d69 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 6631c8da02cfad96c53b217cf647b511c7f34faf (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < a759905de9cd6ec9ca08ceadf0920272772ed830 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f8cd8754a03a3748384ee438c572423643c9c315 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < cec08b7d1ebcd3138d4658b3868ce26aeb1e8e06 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < eea8e4e056a5ffbeb539a13854c017d5d62c756a (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 609d54441493c99f21c1823dfd66fa7f4c512ff4 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.310 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.278 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.237 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.175 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.103 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.20 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.7 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Nomenclature
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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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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