CVE-2023-53118: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix a procfs host directory removal regression scsi_proc_hostdir_rm() decreases a reference counter and hence must only be called once per host that is removed. This change does not require a scsi_add_host_with_dma() change since scsi_add_host_with_dma() will return 0 (success) if scsi_proc_host_add() is called.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.19.278, before 4.20 (fixed in 4.20); version 5.4.237 only; version 5.10.175 only; version 5.15.103 only; version 6.1.20 only; version 6.2.7 only; …

Published 2025-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.