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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53273"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:11:08.792Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:41:44.064Z"
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-2023-53273"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53273.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53273"
title: "Drivers: vmbus: Check for channel allocation before looking up relids"
summary: "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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"176c6b4889195fbe7016d9401175b48c5c9edf68"},{"version":"8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c373e49fbb87aa177819866ed9194ebc5414dfd6"},{"version":"8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c3f0ae5435fd20bb1e3a8308488aa6ac33151ee"},{"version":"8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5c44f3446a0565139b7d8abc78f58b86c398123"},{"version":"8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1eb65c8687316c65140b48fad27133d583178e15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.107","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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