CVE-2023-53803: Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process() A fix for: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ses_enclosure_data_process+0x949/0xe30 [ses] Read of size 1 at addr ffff88a1b043a451 by task systemd-udevd/3271 Checking after (and before in next loop) addl_desc_ptr[1] is sufficient, we expect the size to be sanitized before first access to addl_desc_ptr[1]. Make sure we don't walk beyond end of page.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 2.6.32, before 4.14.308 (fixed in 4.14.308); from 4.15, before 4.19.276 (fixed in 4.19.276); from 4.20, before 5.4.235 (fixed in 5.4.235); from 5.5, before 5.10.173 (fixed in 5.10.173); from 5.11, before 5.15.99 (fixed in 5.15.99); from 5.16, before 6.1.16 (fixed in 6.1.16); …

Published 2025-12-09. Last modified 2026-08-04.