CVE-2023-53037

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

02/05/2025

Last modified:

12/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpi3mr: Bad drive in topology results kernel crash When the SAS Transport Layer support is enabled and a device exposed to the OS by the driver fails INQUIRY commands, the driver frees up the memory allocated for an internal HBA port data structure. However, in some places, the reference to the freed memory is not cleared. When the firmware sends the Device Info change event for the same device again, the freed memory is accessed and that leads to memory corruption and OS crash.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.14 (including)	6.1.22 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.2.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2023-53037

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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