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CVE-2023-53116 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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

CVSS

9.8 CRITICAL

EPSS

0.54% (top 56.00%)

CWE

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Published

2025-05-02T16:15:30.680

Last modified

2026-10-15T22:17:38.293

CVSS vector

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04c394208831d5e0d5cfee46722eb0f033cd4083
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6173a77b7e9d3e202bdb9897b23f2a8afe7bf286
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ed9813871038b25a934b21ab76b5b7dbf44fc3a
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6317235da8aa7cb97529ebc8121cc2a4c4c437a
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcd535f07c58342302a2cd2bdd8894fe0872c8a9
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d99b29012bbf0e86929403209723b2806500c1
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1d5888a5efe345b63c430b256e95acb0a475642
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fafcb4b26393870c45462f9af6a48e581dbbcf7e

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