CVE-2023-53609

Updated on 04 Oct 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

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.

Fixes