CVE-2023-53239 Affecting kernel-obs-build package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.124.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELOBSBUILD-13611126
  • published17 Oct 2025
  • disclosed16 Oct 2025

Introduced: 16 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2023-53239  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-obs-build to version 5.14.21-150500.55.124.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc

As kzalloc may fail and return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid the NULL pointer dereference.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/514154/

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1