CVE-2023-53803

Updated on 09 Dec 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5

Overview

About vulnerability

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

scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process()

A fix for:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process+0x949/0xe30 [ses] Read of size 1 at addr ffff88a1b043a451 by task systemd-udevd/3271

Checking after (and before in next loop) addl_desc_ptr[1] is sufficient, we expect the size to be sanitized before first access to addl_desc_ptr[1]. Make sure we don’t walk beyond end of page.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+4 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Amazon Linux 2 Planned
Amazon Linux 2 5.10 Planned
Amazon Linux 2 5.4 Planned
RHEL 8 Planned
RHEL 9 Will Not Fix
Ubuntu 20.04 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned