CVE-2023-53990 — 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: 2025-12-24T11:15:51.900
• Last modified: 2026-08-04T10:19:24.980

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f87e18203bd30f71eb1a65259e28e291b6cc43a
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32a046ccaeea6c19965c04a4c521e703f6607924
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3aa9d065b0685b4e6052f3f2a2462966fdc44fd2
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab9ddc87a9055c4bebd6524d5d761d605d52e557
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb36365dac25d546ca4af0eb22acb43c9b4ddfdf