CVE-2023-53205 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-53205

KVM: s390/diag: fix racy access of physical cpu number in diag 9c handler

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390/diag: fix racy access of physical cpu number in diag 9c handler We do check for target CPU == -1, but this might change at the time we are going to use it. Hold the physical target CPU in a local variable to avoid out-of-bound accesses to the cpu arrays.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
87e28a15c42cc592009c32a8c20e5789059027c2, 5.13, 0, 5.15.121, 6.1.39, 6.4.4, 6.5

Timeline

Official Publish: September 15th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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