CVE-2023-53380: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref of mreplace in raid10_sync_request There are two check of 'mreplace' in raid10_sync_request(). In the first check, 'need_replace' will be set and 'mreplace' will be used later if no-Faulty 'mreplace' exists, In the second check, 'mreplace' will be set to NULL if it is Faulty, but 'need_replace' will not be changed accordingly. null-ptr-deref occurs if Faulty is set between two check. Fix it by merging two checks into one. And replace 'need_replace' with 'mreplace' because their values are always the same.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.20, before 5.4.251 (fixed in 5.4.251); from 5.5, before 5.10.188 (fixed in 5.10.188); from 5.11, before 5.15.121 (fixed in 5.15.121); from 5.16, before 6.1.39 (fixed in 6.1.39); from 6.2, before 6.3.13 (fixed in 6.3.13); from 6.4, before 6.4.4 (fixed in 6.4.4)

Published 2025-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.