CVE-2023-53786 Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_133-default package, versions <1-150500.11.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELLIVEPATCH5142115050055133DEFAULT-15152504
  • published30 Jan 2026
  • disclosed28 Jan 2026

Introduced: 28 Jan 2026

CVE-2023-53786  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_133-default to version 1-150500.11.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_133-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_133-default 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:

dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line

This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference: dmsetup create flakey --table
"0 blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0 flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512"

Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1