CVE-2023-53683 Affecting kernel-default-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.127.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEFAULTDEVEL-14191527
  • published5 Dec 2025
  • disclosed4 Dec 2025

Introduced: 4 Dec 2025

NewCVE-2023-53683  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default-devel to version 5.14.21-150500.55.127.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-devel package and not the kernel-default-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

fs: hfsplus: remove WARN_ON() from hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode()

syzbot is hitting WARN_ON() in hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode(), for crafted filesystem image can contain bogus length. There conditions are not kernel bugs that can justify kernel to panic.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1