CVE-2023-53614 — Race Condition in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 4
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/ksm: fix race with VMA iteration and mm_struct teardown
exit_mmap() will tear down the VMAs and maple tree with the mmap_lock held
in write mode. Ensure that the maple tree is still valid by checking
ksm_test_exit() after taking the mmap_lock in read mode, but before the
for_each_vma() iterator dereferences a destroyed maple tree.
Since the maple tree is destroyed, the flags telling lockdep to check an
external lock has be…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa5f18ba0727656bd1fe3bcdb0d563f81790f9a04 — 286b0cab31bac29960e5684f6fb331d42f03b363+3
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-m8wv-9hr6-j68w: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/ksm: fix race with VMA iteration and mm_struct teardown
exit_mmap() will tear↗2025-10-04
OSV▶
CVE-2023-53614: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/ksm: fix race with VMA iteration and mm_struct teardown exit_mmap() will tear d↗2025-10-04