{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53140 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53140 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53140 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53140 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53140 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53140/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53140/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53140","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53140/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53140","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53140","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53140","GHSA-q49r-x4cq-74fc","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53140"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel SCSI core during module reload can cause a kernel warning and potential denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-401","name":"Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier\n\nRemove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier to fix a race\ncondition between unloading and reloading kernel modules. This fixes a bug\nintroduced in 2009 by commit 77c019768f06 (\"[SCSI] fix /proc memory leak in\nthe SCSI core\").\n\nFix the following kernel warning:\n\nproc_dir_entry 'scsi/scsi_debug' already registered\nWARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 27986 at fs/proc/generic.c:376 proc_register+0x27d/0x2e0\nCall Trace:\n proc_mkdir+0xb5/0xe0\n scsi_proc_hostdir_add+0xb5/0x170\n scsi_host_alloc+0x683/0x6c0\n sdebug_driver_probe+0x6b/0x2d0 [scsi_debug]\n really_probe+0x159/0x540\n __driver_probe_device+0xdc/0x230\n driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x120\n __device_attach_driver+0xef/0x180\n bus_for_each_drv+0xe5/0x130\n __device_attach+0x127/0x290\n device_initial_probe+0x17/0x20\n bus_probe_device+0x110/0x130\n device_add+0x673/0xc80\n device_register+0x1e/0x30\n sdebug_add_host_helper+0x1a7/0x3b0 [scsi_debug]\n scsi_debug_init+0x64f/0x1000 [scsi_debug]\n do_one_initcall+0xd7/0x470\n do_init_module+0xe7/0x330\n load_module+0x122a/0x12c0\n __do_sys_finit_module+0x124/0x1a0\n __x64_sys_finit_module+0x46/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier","id":"CVE-2023-53140","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"ila: do not generate empty messages in ila_xlat_nl_cmd_get_mapping()","id":"CVE-2023-53141"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"nfc: fdp: add null check of devm_kmalloc_array in fdp_nci_i2c_read_device_properties","id":"CVE-2023-53139"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-05-02","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel SCSI core during module reload can cause a kernel warning and potential denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53140/"}