CVE-2023-53550 — Linux vulnerability

6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 4

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type In commit 3666062b87ec ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: move to use bus_get_dev_root()") the "amd_pstate" attributes where moved from a dedicated kobject to the cpu root kobject. While the dedicated kobject expects to contain kobj_attributes the root kobject needs device_attributes. As the changed arguments are not used by the callbacks it works most of the time. However CFI will de…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.4 — 6.4.11+1
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.4.11-1+1
▶CVEListV5linux/linux3666062b87ec8be4b85dc475dfb54bb17e10a7f6 — ddcfc33a20380508f7fea18e1c330abe17ed4fc0+2
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.4.11-1 (forky)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-m48w-fr7p-r6p2: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type In commit 3666062b87ec ("cp↗2025-10-04
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OSV
CVE-2023-53550: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type In commit 3666062b87ec ("cpuf↗2025-10-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type↗2025-10-04
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Debian
CVE-2023-53550: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: am...↗2023
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2023-53550 kernel: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type↗2025-10-04
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