CVE-2023-53179 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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

02Affected products

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

03Active exploitation status

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

04Recommended remediation

• 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.

05Technical details

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

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

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

08Timeline

• Published: 2025-09-15T14:15:39.920
• Last modified: 2026-10-15T22:17:38.663

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/050d91c03b28ca479df13dfb02bcd2c60dd6a878
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/109e830585e89a03d554bf8ad0e668630d0a6260
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7935b636dd693dfe4483cfef4a1e91366c8103fa
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ca0706c68adadf86a36b60dca090f5e9481e808
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83091f8ac03f118086596f17c9a52d31d6ca94b3
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9e6142e5f8f6ac7d1bca45c1b2b13b084ea9e14
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d59b6fc405549f7caf31f6aa5da1d6bef746b166
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d95c8420efe684b964e3aa28108e9a354bcd7225
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e632d09dffc68b9602d6893a99bfe3001d36cefc