CVE-2023-53609

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: Revert "scsi: core: Do not increase scsi_device's iorequest_cnt if dispatch failed" The "atomic_inc(&cmd->device->iorequest_cnt)" in scsi_queue_rq() would cause kernel panic because cmd->device may be freed after returning from scsi_dispatch_cmd(). This reverts commit cfee29ffb45b1c9798011b19d454637d1b0fe87d.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ca9818d1624e136a76ae8faedb6b6c95ca66903

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35fe6fa57b994e7da222893adf0bb748d6055e73

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-04

Updated: 2025-10-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018