CVE-2023-53559 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.226.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELSOURCE-14106707
  • published25 Nov 2025
  • disclosed24 Nov 2025

Introduced: 24 Nov 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-source to version 5.3.18-150300.59.226.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ip_vti: fix potential slab-use-after-free in decode_session6

When ip_vti device is set to the qdisc of the sfb type, the cb field of the sent skb may be modified during enqueuing. Then, slab-use-after-free may occur when ip_vti device sends IPv6 packets. As commit f855691975bb ("xfrm6: Fix the nexthdr offset in _decode_session6.") showed, xfrm_decode_session was originally intended only for the receive path. IP6CB(skb)->nhoff is not set during transmission. Therefore, set the cb field in the skb to 0 before sending packets.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1