7.1

CVE-2023-53272: linux Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS: 7.1v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53272DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53272
Published 16-09-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53272 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 15 · Related 15
SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1SUSE-SU-2025:03614-1SUSE-SU-2025:03615-1SUSE-SU-2025:03628-1SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1SUSE-SU-2025:20851-1

Timeline

  1. 16-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff The ENA adapters on our instances occasionally reset. Once recently logged a UBSAN failure to console in the process: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in build/linux/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c:540:13 shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int' CPU: 28 PID: 70012 Comm: kworker/u72:2 Kdump: loaded not tainted 5.15.117 Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017 Workqueue: ena ena_fw_reset_device [ena] Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x63 dump_stack+0x10/0x16 ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x36 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x61/0x10e ? __const_udelay+0x43/0x50 ena_delay_exponential_backoff_us.cold+0x16/0x1e [ena] wait_for_reset_state+0x54/0xa0 [ena] ena_com_dev_reset+0xc8/0x110 [ena] ena_down+0x3fe/0x480 [ena] ena_destroy_device+0xeb/0xf0 [ena] ena_fw_reset_device+0x30/0x50 [ena] process_one_work+0x22b/0x3d0 worker_thread+0x4d/0x3f0 ? process_one_work+0x3d0/0x3d0 kthread+0x12a/0x150 ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK> Apparently, the reset delays are getting so large they can trigger a UBSAN panic. Looking at the code, the current timeout is capped at 5000us. Using a base value of 100us, the current code will overflow after (1<<29). Even at values before 32, this function wraps around, perhaps unintentionally. Cap the value of the exponent used for this backoff at (1<<16) which is larger than currently necessary, but large enough to support bigger values in the future.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.16% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026
EPSS score
0.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

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≥ 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f, < 1e760b2d18bf129b3da052c2946c02758e97d15e | ≥ 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f, < 3e36cc94d6e60a27f27498adf1c71eeba769ab33 | ≥ 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f, < 90947ebf8794e3c229fb2e16e37f1bfea6877f14 | ≥ 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f, < 0939c264729d4a081ff88efce2ffdf85dc5331e0 | ≥ 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f, < 1e9cb763e9bacf0c932aa948f50dcfca6f519a26 | 5.8
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.8, < 5.10.188 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.121 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.40 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.4.5 | 6.5:rc1
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.52-1 | < 6.4.11-1

3 vendors · 122 products

References

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