CVE-2023-53803 (GCVE-0-2023-53803)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-09 00:00
Modified
2026-08-05 09:16
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process() A fix for: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process+0x949/0xe30 [ses] Read of size 1 at addr ffff88a1b043a451 by task systemd-udevd/3271 Checking after (and before in next loop) addl_desc_ptr[1] is sufficient, we expect the size to be sanitized before first access to addl_desc_ptr[1]. Make sure we don't walk beyond end of page.
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Linux Linux Version: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245
Version: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245
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Version: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245
Version: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245
Version: 21fab1d0595eacf781705ec3509012a28f298245
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process()\n\nA fix for:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process+0x949/0xe30 [ses]\nRead of size 1 at addr ffff88a1b043a451 by task systemd-udevd/3271\n\nChecking after (and before in next loop) addl_desc_ptr[1] is sufficient, we\nexpect the size to be sanitized before first access to addl_desc_ptr[1].\nMake sure we don\u0027t walk beyond end of page."
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