CVE-2023-53494 — 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: 2025-10-01T12:15:52.673
• Last modified: 2026-08-04T10:19:09.270

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51c082514c2dedf2711c99d93c196cc4eedceb40
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c3e1d63b63dc0841d41df729297cd7c1c35808
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/912eb10b65646ffd222256c78a1c566a3dac177d
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92a07ba4f0af2cccdc2aa5ee32679c9c9714db90
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5870848879291700fe6c5257dcb48aadd10425c