CVE-2023-53994: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ionic: remove WARN_ON to prevent panic_on_warn Remove unnecessary early code development check and the WARN_ON that it uses. The irq alloc and free paths have long been cleaned up and this check shouldn't have stuck around so long.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 5.4, 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 6.1.40 (fixed in 6.1.40); from 6.2, before 6.4.5 (fixed in 6.4.5)

Published 2025-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.