CVE-2023-53643

Updated on 07 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:

nvme-tcp: don’t access released socket during error recovery

While the error recovery work is temporarily failing reconnect attempts, running the ’nvme list’ command causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference by calling getsockname() with a released socket.

During error recovery work, the nvme tcp socket is released and a new one created, so it is not safe to access the socket without proper check.

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:

nvme-tcp: don’t access released socket during error recovery

While the error recovery work is temporarily failing reconnect attempts, running the ’nvme list’ command causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference by calling getsockname() with a released socket.

During error recovery work, the nvme tcp socket is released and a new one created, so it is not safe to access the socket without proper check.

Fixes