{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53281 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53281 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 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-2023-53281 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53281 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 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-2023-53281 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-2023-53281/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53281/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53281","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53281/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53281","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53281","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53281","GHSA-vjmw-vhp2-pcr2","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53281"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A locking error in the rtl8723bs Wi-Fi driver causes a kernel oops and system crash when handling join timeouts.","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":"cisa-adp","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-667","name":"Improper Locking"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix locking in _rtw_join_timeout_handler()\n\nCommit 041879b12ddb (\"drivers: staging: rtl8192bs: Fix deadlock in\nrtw_joinbss_event_prehandle()\") besides fixing the deadlock also\nmodified _rtw_join_timeout_handler() to use spin_[un]lock_irq()\ninstead of spin_[un]lock_bh().\n\n_rtw_join_timeout_handler() calls rtw_do_join() which takes\npmlmepriv-\u003escanned_queue.lock using spin_[un]lock_bh(). This\nspin_unlock_bh() call re-enables softirqs which triggers an oops in\nkernel/softirq.c: __local_bh_enable_ip() when it calls\nlockdep_assert_irqs_enabled():\n\n[  244.506087] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/softirq.c:376 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xa6/0x100\n...\n[  244.509022] Call Trace:\n[  244.509048]  \u003cIRQ\u003e\n[  244.509100]  _rtw_join_timeout_handler+0x134/0x170 [r8723bs]\n[  244.509468]  ? __pfx__rtw_join_timeout_handler+0x10/0x10 [r8723bs]\n[  244.509772]  ? __pfx__rtw_join_timeout_handler+0x10/0x10 [r8723bs]\n[  244.510076]  call_timer_fn+0x95/0x2a0\n[  244.510200]  __run_timers.part.0+0x1da/0x2d0\n\nThis oops is causd by the switch to spin_[un]lock_irq() which disables\nthe IRQs for the entire duration of _rtw_join_timeout_handler().\n\nDisabling the IRQs is not necessary since all code taking this lock\nruns from either user contexts or from softirqs, switch back to\nspin_[un]lock_bh() to fix this.","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":"drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix locking in _rtw_join_timeout_handler()","id":"CVE-2023-53281","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":5,"next":{"headline":"scsi: lpfc: Fix use-after-free KFENCE violation during sysfs firmware write","id":"CVE-2023-53282"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"scsi: qla2xxx: Remove unused nvme_ls_waitq wait queue","id":"CVE-2023-53280"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-09-16","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":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A locking error in the rtl8723bs Wi-Fi driver causes a kernel oops and system crash when handling join timeouts.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53281/"}