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High 7.3Published Sep 15, 2025

CVE-2023-53205KVM: s390/diag: fix racy access of physical cpu number in diag 9c handler

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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.

CVSS
7.3 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
Oct 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 15, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from 87e28a15c42cc592009c32a8c20e5789059027c2 before a9ccf140a2a03a0ae82be4bdfbdd17bdaea72ff5; 87e28a15c42cc592009c32a8c20e5789059027c2 builds before 86bfb18bad60fc468e5f112cbbd918462a8dd435; from 87e28a15c42cc592009c32a8c20e5789059027c2 before dc7e0192c470a53d847c79a2796f9ac429477a26; 87e28a15c42cc592009c32a8c20e5789059027c2 builds before 0bc380beb78aa352eadbc21d934dd9606fcee808
CNA record
linux linux_kernel
linux:linux_kernel
from 5.13 before 5.15.121; from 5.16 before 6.1.39; from 6.2 before 6.4.4
NVD

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