{"cve":"CVE-2023-53273","nvd":{"published":"2025-09-16T08:15:36.127","modified":"2026-06-17T06:44:42.377","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nDrivers: vmbus: Check for channel allocation before looking up relids\n\nrelid2channel() assumes vmbus channel array to be allocated when called.\nHowever, in cases such as kdump/kexec, not all relids will be reset by the host.\nWhen the second kernel boots and if the guest receives a vmbus interrupt during\nvmbus driver initialization before vmbus_connect() is called, before it finishes,\nor if it fails, the vmbus interrupt service routine is called which in turn calls\nrelid2channel() and can cause a null pointer dereference.\n\nPrint a warning and error out in relid2channel() for a channel id that's invalid\nin the second kernel.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/176c6b4889195fbe7016d9401175b48c5c9edf68","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1eb65c8687316c65140b48fad27133d583178e15","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c3f0ae5435fd20bb1e3a8308488aa6ac33151ee","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5c44f3446a0565139b7d8abc78f58b86c398123","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c373e49fbb87aa177819866ed9194ebc5414dfd6"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:08:41.295252406+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-53273","score":0.00159,"percentile":0.05031,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}