CVE-2023-53786

Updated on 09 Dec 2025

Severity

4.7 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
4.7

Overview

About vulnerability

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

dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line

This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference: dmsetup create flakey –table
“0 blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0 flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512”

Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+5 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU Released
12 kernels
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els20
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els21
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els23
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els22
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els14
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els18
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els16
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els15
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els17
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els19
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els24
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els25