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CVE-2023-53616 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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

CVSS

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

0.14% (top 95.90%)

CWE

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Published

2025-10-04T16:15:58.460

Last modified

2026-08-04T10:19:14.780

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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/114ea3cb13ab25f7178cb60283adb93d2f96dad7
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4de3a603010e0ca334487de24c6aab0777b7f808
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5873df0195124be2f357de11bfd473ead4f90ed8
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e2bda2c192d0244b5a78b787ef20aa10cb319b7
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/756747d4b439e3e1159282ae89f17eefebbe9b25
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88484bde6f12126616b38e43b6c00edcd941f615
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3c0f0ddd851b3fa3e9d3450bbcd561f4f850469
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef7311101ca43dd73b45bca7a30ac72d9535ff87

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