Is CVE-2023-53670 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2023-53670 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2023-53670?

CVE-2023-53670 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2023-53670?

CVE-2023-53670 has an EPSS score of 0.15% (4th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53670?

Upgrade linux on debian 12 to 6.1.52-1 or later. Fixes are available for 157 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2023-53670

MEDIUM

5.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-core: fix dev_pm_qos memleak Call dev_pm_qos_hide_latency_tolerance() in the error unwind patch to avoid following kmemleak:- blktests (master) # kmemleak-clear; ./check nvme/044; blktests (master) # kmemleak-scan ; kmemleak-show nvme/044 (Test bi-directional authentication) [passed] runtime 2.111s ... 2.124s unreferenced object 0xffff888110c46240 (size 96): comm "nvme", pid 33461, jiffies 4345365353 (age 75.586s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<0000000069ac2cec>] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0x90 [<000000006acc66d5>] dev_pm_qos_update_user_latency_tolerance+0x6f/0x100 [<00000000cc376ea7>] nvme_init_ctrl+0x38e/0x410 [nvme_core] [<000000007df61b4b>] 0xffffffffc05e88b3 [<00000000d152b985>] 0xffffffffc05744cb [<00000000f04a4041>] vfs_write+0xc5/0x3c0 [<00000000f9491baf>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<000000001c46513d>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000ecf348fe>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

CWE-401Missing Release of Memory (Memory Leak)

How to fix

Remediation Available

linuxDebian

Fixed in:6.1.52-1CVE-2023-53670

Fixed in:6.4.4-1CVE-2023-53670

bpftoolRocky

Fixed in:0:7.2.0-362.8.1.el9_3RHSA-2023:6583

bpftoolRed Hat / RHEL

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kernelRed Hat / RHEL

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kernelRocky

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kernel-64kRed Hat / RHEL

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kernel-modulesRocky

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kernel-rtRocky

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kernel-rt-debuginfoRocky

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kernel-rt-debuginfoRed Hat / RHEL

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kernel-rt-develRed Hat / RHEL

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kernel-toolsRocky

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kernel-tools-libs-develRocky

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kernel-uki-virtRocky

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kernel-uki-virtRed Hat / RHEL

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kernel-zfcpdumpRed Hat / RHEL

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libperfRed Hat / RHEL

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libperfRocky

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perfRed Hat / RHEL

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perfRocky

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perf-debuginfoRocky

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rtlaRocky

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rtlaRed Hat / RHEL

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rvRed Hat / RHEL

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rvRocky

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.15%probability of exploitation in 30 days

4thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 4% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch4

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