Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025
KVM: s390/diag: fix racy access of physical cpu number in diag 9c handler
CVE-2023-53205
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390/diag: fix racy access of physical cpu number in diag 9c handler
We do check for target CPU == -1, but this might change at the time we are going to use it. Hold the physical target CPU in a local variable to avoid out-of-bound accesses to the cpu arrays.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 5.13
Patches
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