CVE-2023-53242 — 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

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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: 2025-09-15T15:15:51.340
• Last modified: 2026-08-04T10:18:59.363

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15cc25829a97c3957e520e971868aacc84341317
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cf2181e438f43ed24e12424fe36d156cca233b9
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68e675a9b69cfc34dd915d91a4650e3ee53421f4
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f6756cd09889c7201ee31e6f76fbd914fb0b80d
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e02bc492883abf751fd1a8d89fc025fbce6744c6
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5aaf140ab1c02889c088e1b1098adad600541af