CVE-2023-53557 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.78.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMS-14068730
  • published20 Nov 2025
  • disclosed19 Nov 2025

Introduced: 19 Nov 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms to version 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

fprobe: Release rethook after the ftrace_ops is unregistered

While running bpf selftests it's possible to get following fault:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI ... Call Trace: <TASK> fprobe_handler+0xc1/0x270 ? __pfx_bpf_testmod_init+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_bpf_testmod_init+0x10/0x10 ? bpf_fentry_test1+0x5/0x10 ? bpf_fentry_test1+0x5/0x10 ? bpf_testmod_init+0x22/0x80 ? do_one_initcall+0x63/0x2e0 ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40 ? kmalloc_trace+0xaf/0xc0 ? do_init_module+0x60/0x250 ? __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120 ? do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc </TASK>

In unregister_fprobe function we can't release fp->rethook while it's possible there are some of its users still running on another cpu.

Moving rethook_free call after fp->ops is unregistered with unregister_ftrace_function call.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1