CVE-2023-53118

scsi: core: Fix a procfs host directory removal regression

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 2, 2025
Updated: May 23, 2026
Reserved: May 2, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	891a3cba425cf483d96facca55aebd6ff1da4338 to before 88c3d3bb6469cea929ac68fd326bdcbefcdfdd83Affected 6b223e32d66ca9db1f252f433514783d8b22a8e1 to before 68c665bb185037e7eb66fb792c61da9d7151e99cAffected e471e928de97b00f297ad1015cc14f9459765713 to before 2a764d55e938743efa7c2cba7305633bcf227f09Affected 17e98a5ede81b7696bec421f7afa2dfe467f5e6b to before 7e0ae8667fcdd99d1756922e1140cac75f5fa279Affected 1ec363599f8346d5a8d08c71a0d9860d6c420ec0 to before 73f030d4ef6d1ad17f824a0a2eb637ef7a9c7d51Affected fc663711b94468f4e1427ebe289c9f05669699c9 to before be03df3d4bfe7e8866d4aa43d62e648ffe884f5fAffected 13daafe1e209b03e9bda16ff2bd2b2da145a139bAffected 4.19.278 to before 4.20Affected
LinuxLinux	5.4.237 to before 5.4.238Affected 5.10.175 to before 5.10.176Affected 5.15.103 to before 5.15.104Affected 6.1.20 to before 6.1.21Affected 6.2.7 to before 6.2.8Affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

891a3cba425cf483d96facca55aebd6ff1da4338 to before 88c3d3bb6469cea929ac68fd326bdcbefcdfdd83Affected
6b223e32d66ca9db1f252f433514783d8b22a8e1 to before 68c665bb185037e7eb66fb792c61da9d7151e99cAffected
e471e928de97b00f297ad1015cc14f9459765713 to before 2a764d55e938743efa7c2cba7305633bcf227f09Affected
17e98a5ede81b7696bec421f7afa2dfe467f5e6b to before 7e0ae8667fcdd99d1756922e1140cac75f5fa279Affected
1ec363599f8346d5a8d08c71a0d9860d6c420ec0 to before 73f030d4ef6d1ad17f824a0a2eb637ef7a9c7d51Affected
fc663711b94468f4e1427ebe289c9f05669699c9 to before be03df3d4bfe7e8866d4aa43d62e648ffe884f5fAffected
13daafe1e209b03e9bda16ff2bd2b2da145a139bAffected
4.19.278 to before 4.20Affected

LinuxLinux

5.4.237 to before 5.4.238Affected
5.10.175 to before 5.10.176Affected
5.15.103 to before 5.15.104Affected
6.1.20 to before 6.1.21Affected
6.2.7 to before 6.2.8Affected

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