CVE-2023-53373 Affecting kernel-abi-stablelists package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.80.1.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-KERNELABISTABLELISTS-13652988
  • published21 Oct 2025
  • disclosed18 Sept 2025

Introduced: 18 Sep 2025

CVE-2023-53373  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 kernel-abi-stablelists to version 0:4.18.0-553.80.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-18297.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-stablelists package and not the kernel-abi-stablelists package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly

As it is seqiv only handles the special return value of EINPROGERSS, which means that in all other cases it will free data related to the request.

However, as the caller of seqiv may specify MAY_BACKLOG, we also need to expect EBUSY and treat it in the same way. Otherwise backlogged requests will trigger a use-after-free.

CVSS Base Scores

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