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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53431" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-18T16:04:11.748Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:14:06.042Z" 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-2023-53431" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53431.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53431" title: "scsi: ses: Handle enclosure with just a primary component gracefully" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: ses: Handle enclosure with just a primary component gracefully\n\nThis reverts commit 3fe97ff3d949 (\"scsi: ses: Don't attach if enclosure\nhas no components\") and introduces proper handling of case where there are\nno detected secondary components, but primary component (enumerated in\nnum_enclosures) does exist. That fix was originally proposed by Ding Hui\n\u003cdinghui@sangfor.com.cn\u003e.\n\nCompletely ignoring devices that have one primary enclosure and no\nsecondary one results in ses_intf_add() bailing completely\n\n\tscsi 2:0:0:254: enclosure has no enumerated components\n scsi 2:0:0:254: Failed to bind enclosure -12ven in valid configurations such\n\neven on valid configurations with 1 primary and 0 secondary enclosures as\nbelow:\n\n\t# sg_ses /dev/sg0\n\t 3PARdata SES 3321\n\tSupported diagnostic pages:\n\t Supported Diagnostic Pages [sdp] [0x0]\n\t Configuration (SES) [cf] [0x1]\n\t Short Enclosure Status (SES) [ses] [0x8]\n\t# sg_ses -p cf /dev/sg0\n\t 3PARdata SES 3321\n\tConfiguration diagnostic page:\n\t number of secondary subenclosures: 0\n\t generation code: 0x0\n\t enclosure descriptor list\n\t Subenclosure identifier: 0 [primary]\n\t relative ES process id: 0, number of ES processes: 1\n\t number of type descriptor headers: 1\n\t enclosure logical identifier (hex): 20000002ac02068d\n\t enclosure vendor: 3PARdata product: VV rev: 3321\n\t type descriptor header and text list\n\t Element type: Unspecified, subenclosure id: 0\n\t number of possible elements: 1\n\nThe changelog for the original fix follows\n\n=====\nWe can get a crash when disconnecting the iSCSI session,\nthe call trace like this:\n\n [ffff00002a00fb70] kfree at ffff00000830e224\n [ffff00002a00fba0] ses_intf_remove at ffff000001f200e4\n [ffff00002a00fbd0] device_del at ffff0000086b6a98\n [ffff00002a00fc50] device_unregister at ffff0000086b6d58\n [ffff00002a00fc70] __scsi_remove_device at ffff00000870608c\n [ffff00002a00fca0] scsi_remove_device at ffff000008706134\n [ffff00002a00fcc0] __scsi_remove_target at ffff0000087062e4\n [ffff00002a00fd10] scsi_remove_target at ffff0000087064c0\n [ffff00002a00fd70] __iscsi_unbind_session at ffff000001c872c4\n [ffff00002a00fdb0] process_one_work at ffff00000810f35c\n [ffff00002a00fe00] worker_thread at ffff00000810f648\n [ffff00002a00fe70] kthread at ffff000008116e98\n\nIn ses_intf_add, components count could be 0, and kcalloc 0 size scomp,\nbut not saved in edev-\u003ecomponent[i].scratch\n\nIn this situation, edev-\u003ecomponent[0].scratch is an invalid pointer,\nwhen kfree it in ses_intf_remove_enclosure, a crash like above would happen\nThe call trace also could be other random cases when kfree cannot catch\nthe invalid pointer\n\nWe should not use edev-\u003ecomponent[] array when the components count is 0\nWe also need check index when use edev-\u003ecomponent[] array in\nses_enclosure_data_process\n=====" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e7c498c3713b09bef20c76c7319555637e8bbd5"},{"version":"9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"110d425cdfb15006f3c4fde5264e786a247b6b36"},{"version":"9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"176d7345b89ced72020a313bfa4e7f345d1c3aed"},{"version":"9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05143d90ac90b7abc6692285895a1ef460e008ee"},{"version":"9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8e702c54413eee2d8f94f61d18adadac7c87e87"},{"version":"9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eabc4872f172ecb8dd8536bc366a51868154a450"},{"version":"9927c68864e9c39cc317b4f559309ba29e642168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8e22b7a1694bb8d025ea636816472739d859145"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.25","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.25"},{"version":"4.19.281","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.25","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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