{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53176 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53176 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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-2023-53176 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53176 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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-2023-53176 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-2023-53176/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53176/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53176","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53176/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53176","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53176","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53176","GHSA-j67r-mf5q-82pc","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53176"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel serial driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel serial driver causes a system crash when unbinding specific hardware drivers, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: 8250: Reinit port-\u003epm on port specific driver unbind\n\nWhen we unbind a serial port hardware specific 8250 driver, the generic\nserial8250 driver takes over the port. After that we see an oops about 10\nseconds later. This can produce the following at least on some TI SoCs:\n\nUnhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406)\nInternal error: : 1406 [#1] SMP ARM\n\nTurns out that we may still have the serial port hardware specific driver\nport-\u003epm in use, and serial8250_pm() tries to call it after the port\nspecific driver is gone:\n\nserial8250_pm [8250_base] from uart_change_pm+0x54/0x8c [serial_base]\nuart_change_pm [serial_base] from uart_hangup+0x154/0x198 [serial_base]\nuart_hangup [serial_base] from __tty_hangup.part.0+0x328/0x37c\n__tty_hangup.part.0 from disassociate_ctty+0x154/0x20c\ndisassociate_ctty from do_exit+0x744/0xaac\ndo_exit from do_group_exit+0x40/0x8c\ndo_group_exit from __wake_up_parent+0x0/0x1c\n\nLet's fix the issue by calling serial8250_set_defaults() in\nserial8250_unregister_port(). This will set the port back to using\nthe serial8250 default functions, and sets the port-\u003epm to point to\nserial8250_pm.","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":"serial: 8250: Reinit port-\u003epm on port specific driver unbind","id":"CVE-2023-53176","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"media: hi846: fix usage of pm_runtime_get_if_in_use()","id":"CVE-2023-53177"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"PCI: hv: Fix a crash in hv_pci_restore_msi_msg() during hibernation","id":"CVE-2023-53175"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-09-15","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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel serial driver causes a system crash when unbinding specific hardware drivers, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53176/"}