7.8

CVE-2023-53217: nubus: Partially revert proc_create_single_data() conversion

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53217DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53217
Published 15-09-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53217 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 10 · Related 10
SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1SUSE-SU-2025:20851-1SUSE-SU-2025:20861-1SUSE-SU-2025:20870-1SUSE-SU-2025:20898-1

Timeline

  1. 15-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nubus: Partially revert proc_create_single_data() conversion The conversion to proc_create_single_data() introduced a regression whereby reading a file in /proc/bus/nubus results in a seg fault: # grep -r . /proc/bus/nubus/e/ Data read fault at 0x00000020 in Super Data (pc=0x1074c2) BAD KERNEL BUSERR Oops: 00000000 Modules linked in: PC: [<001074c2>] PDE_DATA+0xc/0x16 SR: 2010 SP: 38284958 a2: 01152370 d0: 00000001 d1: 01013000 d2: 01002790 d3: 00000000 d4: 00000001 d5: 0008ce2e a0: 00000000 a1: 00222a40 Process grep (pid: 45, task=142f8727) Frame format=B ssw=074d isc=2008 isb=4e5e daddr=00000020 dobuf=01199e70 baddr=001074c8 dibuf=ffffffff ver=f Stack from 01199e48: 01199e70 00222a58 01002790 00000000 011a3000 01199eb0 015000c0 00000000 00000000 01199ec0 01199ec0 000d551a 011a3000 00000001 00000000 00018000 d003f000 00000003 00000001 0002800d 01052840 01199fa8 c01f8000 00000000 00000029 0b532b80 00000000 00000000 00000029 0b532b80 01199ee4 00103640 011198c0 d003f000 00018000 01199fa8 00000000 011198c0 00000000 01199f4c 000b3344 011198c0 d003f000 00018000 01199fa8 00000000 00018000 011198c0 Call Trace: [<00222a58>] nubus_proc_rsrc_show+0x18/0xa0 [<000d551a>] seq_read+0xc4/0x510 [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<0002800d>] __sys_setreuid+0x115/0x1c6 [<00103640>] proc_reg_read+0x5c/0xb0 [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<000b3344>] __vfs_read+0x2c/0x13c [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<000b8aa2>] sys_statx+0x60/0x7e [<000b34b6>] vfs_read+0x62/0x12a [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<000b39c2>] ksys_read+0x48/0xbe [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<000b3a4e>] sys_read+0x16/0x1a [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<00002b84>] syscall+0x8/0xc [<00018000>] fp_fcos+0x2/0x82 [<0000c016>] not_ext+0xa/0x18 Code: 4e5e 4e75 4e56 0000 206e 0008 2068 ffe8 <2068> 0020 2008 4e5e 4e75 4e56 0000 2f0b 206e 0008 2068 0004 2668 0020 206b ffe8 Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Segmentation fault The proc_create_single_data() conversion does not work because single_open(file, nubus_proc_rsrc_show, PDE_DATA(inode)) is not equivalent to the original code.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

6%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.16% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

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ENISA CNW

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CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu119 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-86.96
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1047.52
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 3f3942aca6da351a12543aa776467791b63b3a78, < f70407e8e0272e00d133c5e039168ff1bae6bcac | ≥ 3f3942aca6da351a12543aa776467791b63b3a78, < c06edf13f4cf7f9e8ff4bc6f7e951e4f074dc105 | ≥ 3f3942aca6da351a12543aa776467791b63b3a78, < 67e3b5230cefed1eca470c460a2035f02986cebb | ≥ 3f3942aca6da351a12543aa776467791b63b3a78, < 9877533e1401dbbb2c7da8badda05d196aa07623 | ≥ 3f3942aca6da351a12543aa776467791b63b3a78, < a03f2f4bd49030f57849227be9ba38a3eb1edb61 | ≥ 3f3942aca6da351a12543aa776467791b63b3a78, < 0e96647cff9224db564a1cee6efccb13dbe11ee2 | 4.18
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.18, < 5.10.188 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.120 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.38 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.3.12 | ≥ 6.4, < 6.4.2
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.38-1 | < 6.4.4-1

3 vendors · 122 products

References

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