# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53140"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:56:11.666Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:13.137Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53140"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53140.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53140"
title: "scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier\n\nRemove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier to fix a race\ncondition between unloading and reloading kernel modules. This fixes a bug\nintroduced in 2009 by commit 77c019768f06 (\"[SCSI] fix /proc memory leak in\nthe SCSI core\").\n\nFix the following kernel warning:\n\nproc_dir_entry 'scsi/scsi_debug' already registered\nWARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 27986 at fs/proc/generic.c:376 proc_register+0x27d/0x2e0\nCall Trace:\n proc_mkdir+0xb5/0xe0\n scsi_proc_hostdir_add+0xb5/0x170\n scsi_host_alloc+0x683/0x6c0\n sdebug_driver_probe+0x6b/0x2d0 [scsi_debug]\n really_probe+0x159/0x540\n __driver_probe_device+0xdc/0x230\n driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x120\n __device_attach_driver+0xef/0x180\n bus_for_each_drv+0xe5/0x130\n __device_attach+0x127/0x290\n device_initial_probe+0x17/0x20\n bus_probe_device+0x110/0x130\n device_add+0x673/0xc80\n device_register+0x1e/0x30\n sdebug_add_host_helper+0x1a7/0x3b0 [scsi_debug]\n scsi_debug_init+0x64f/0x1000 [scsi_debug]\n do_one_initcall+0xd7/0x470\n do_init_module+0xe7/0x330\n load_module+0x122a/0x12c0\n __do_sys_finit_module+0x124/0x1a0\n __x64_sys_finit_module+0x46/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0"
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