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CVE-2023-53102

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-53102 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ice network driver, affecting the linux_kernel product. The flaw occurs when the driver attempts to disable interrupts for a queue pair, but the transmit queue interrupt is disabled after hardware flush, leading to a race condition where the system attempts to access freed memory. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, and resulting in high availability impact (system crash). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.5, < 5.10.176CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.104CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.16, < 6.1.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.2, < 6.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-53102Moderate

kernel: ice: xsk: disable txq irq before flushing hw

May 2, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/243cde8de10894d7812c8a6b62653bf04d8f9700
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/2ecc6e44959382f95c9d427cd8da85121a9cecda
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/b830c9642386867863ac64295185f896ff2928ac
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/b89a453c6918e0f346fb0562e8c7812b94d28c73
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/cccba1ff0798a27f7b8d0c06762ef977400a2afb
Patch