5.5

CVE-2023-53611: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53611DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53611
Published 04-10-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53611 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.14%
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 17 · Related 15
RHSA-2024:2394RHSA-2024:3138SUSE-SU-2025:21040-1SUSE-SU-2025:21052-1SUSE-SU-2025:21056-1SUSE-SU-2025:21064-1

Timeline

  1. 04-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi_si: fix a memleak in try_smi_init() Kmemleak reported the following leak info in try_smi_init(): unreferenced object 0xffff00018ecf9400 (size 1024): comm "modprobe", pid 2707763, jiffies 4300851415 (age 773.308s) backtrace: [<000000004ca5b312>] __kmalloc+0x4b8/0x7b0 [<00000000953b1072>] try_smi_init+0x148/0x5dc [ipmi_si] [<000000006460d325>] 0xffff800081b10148 [<0000000039206ea5>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2a4 [<00000000601399ce>] do_init_module+0x50/0x300 [<000000003c12ba3c>] load_module+0x7a8/0x9e0 [<00000000c246fffe>] __se_sys_init_module+0x104/0x180 [<00000000eea99093>] __arm64_sys_init_module+0x24/0x30 [<0000000021b1ef87>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x94/0x250 [<0000000070f4f8b7>] do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe0 [<000000005a05337f>] el0_svc+0x24/0x3c [<000000005eb248d6>] el0_sync_handler+0x160/0x164 [<0000000030a59039>] el0_sync+0x160/0x180 The problem was that when an error occurred before handlers registration and after allocating `new_smi->si_sm`, the variable wouldn't be freed in the error handling afterwards since `shutdown_smi()` hadn't been registered yet. Fix it by adding a `kfree()` in the error handling path in `try_smi_init()`.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

3%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.14% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.14%

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
  • linux< 5.4.0-169.187 | < 5.15.0-94.104
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.4.0-1116.126 | < 5.15.0-1053.58
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 7960f18a56475bf2177c5ff56c72eb4c12c56440, < b9bc8fbb2d416ce87f0342478dc9fcfd79f2c65f | ≥ 7960f18a56475bf2177c5ff56c72eb4c12c56440, < f53ab5a2bf20fed59a2f7542d3453228b8056358 | ≥ 7960f18a56475bf2177c5ff56c72eb4c12c56440, < 5c5f02e16b919c8cb6024dc3778c8d8f1fb1f26b | ≥ 7960f18a56475bf2177c5ff56c72eb4c12c56440, < cbb7d8a4b4beb3061b3a1847a742983a01dca381 | ≥ 7960f18a56475bf2177c5ff56c72eb4c12c56440, < 09cb2a71b2e982015fe0464f28da1ab42b8e6375 | ≥ 7960f18a56475bf2177c5ff56c72eb4c12c56440, < 1bfcfea0fae0d0a6c6ff5543e6d704b3807b83ce | ≥ 7960f18a56475bf2177c5ff56c72eb4c12c56440, < 7291af9a738d936c2d6869d030711dceb68404d0 | ≥ 7960f18a56475bf2177c5ff56c72eb4c12c56440, < 6cf1a126de2992b4efe1c3c4d398f8de4aed6e3f | 4.18
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.18, < 4.19.295 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.257 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.195 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.132 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.53 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.4.16 | ≥ 6.5, < 6.5.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.55-1 | < 6.5.3-1

3 vendors · 122 products

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