CVE-2023-53097 Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.113.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEVEL-10730321
  • published12 Jul 2025
  • disclosed10 Jul 2025

Introduced: 10 Jul 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-devel to version 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel package and not the kernel-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:

powerpc/iommu: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic at once.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1