CVE-2023-53338 — 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: 2025-09-17T15:15:36.913
• Last modified: 2026-08-04T10:19:02.720

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/065d5f17096ec9161180e2c890afdff4dc6125f2
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29b22badb7a84b783e3a4fffca16f7768fb31205
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65583f9e070db7bece20710cfa2e3daeb0b831d9
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67f8f2bae8e7ac72e09def2b667e44704c4d1ee1
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a97f221651fcdc891166e9bc270e3d9bfa5a0080
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d68c17402442f5f494a2c3ebde5cb82f6aa9160a
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3f647e4b642f9f6d32795a16f92c116c138d2af