CVE-2023-53615 scsi: qla2xxx: Fix deletion race condition

What is CVE-2023-53615?

CVE-2023-53615 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix deletion race condition

System crash when using debug kernel due to link list corruption. The cause of the link list corruption is due to session deletion was allowed to queue up twice. Here's the internal trace that show the same port was allowed to double queue for deletion on different cpu.

20808683956 015 qla2xxx [0000:13:00.1]-e801:4: Scheduling sess ffff93ebf9306800 for deletion 50:06:0e:80:12:48:ff:50 fc4_type 1 20808683957 027 qla2xxx [0000:13:00.1]-e801:4: Scheduling sess ffff93ebf9306800 for deletion 50:06:0e:80:12:48:ff:50 fc4_type 1

Move the clearing/setting of deleted flag lock.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53615?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53615?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2023-53615 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53615 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-53615, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53615, GHSA-fq5x-5f3p-8v6r, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53615.