CVE-2023-53609

high
Published 2023-11-07 ยท Modified 2023-11-07
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: Revert "scsi: core: Do not increase scsi_device's iorequest_cnt if dispatch failed" The "atomic_inc(&cmd->device->iorequest_cnt)" in scsi_queue_rq() would cause kernel panic because cmd->device may be freed after returning from scsi_dispatch_cmd(). This reverts commit cfee29ffb45b1c9798011b19d454637d1b0fe87d.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed6.3.7-1
debian debiansidfixed6.3.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.3.7-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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