CVE-2023-53205CWE-787

CVE-2023-53205

High · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: s390/diag: fix racy access of physical cpu number in diag 9c handler

We do check for target CPU == -1, but this might change at the time we

are going to use it. Hold the physical target CPU in a local variable to

avoid out-of-bound accesses to the cpu arrays.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00170 · 6.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2025-09-15T19:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.13, < 5.15.1215.15.121
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.396.1.39
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.4.46.4.4
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:21Z
    KVM: s390/diag: fix racy access of physical cpu number in diag 9c handler
    cvelistv5