CVE-2023-53568 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.22.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSYMS-13923031
  • published13 Nov 2025
  • disclosed11 Nov 2025

Introduced: 11 Nov 2025

CVE-2023-53568  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-syms to version 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 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:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

s390/zcrypt: don't leak memory if dev_set_name() fails

When dev_set_name() fails, zcdn_create() doesn't free the newly allocated resources. Do it.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1