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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53487" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:54.747Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:56.368Z" 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-2023-53487" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53487.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53487" title: "powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects\n\nWith hardened usercopy enabled (CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y), using the\n/proc/powerpc/rtas/firmware_update interface to prepare a system\nfirmware update yields a BUG():\n\n kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!\n Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]\n LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 PID: 2232 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3+ #2\n Hardware name: IBM,8408-E8E POWER8E (raw) 0x4b0201 0xf000004 of:IBM,FW860.50 (SV860_146) hv:phyp pSeries\n NIP: c0000000005991d0 LR: c0000000005991cc CTR: 0000000000000000\n REGS: c0000000148c76a0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.5.0-rc3+)\n MSR: 8000000000029033 \u003cSF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE\u003e CR: 24002242 XER: 0000000c\n CFAR: c0000000001fbd34 IRQMASK: 0\n [ ... GPRs omitted ... ]\n NIP usercopy_abort+0xa0/0xb0\n LR usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0\n Call Trace:\n usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0 (unreliable)\n __check_heap_object+0x1b4/0x1d0\n __check_object_size+0x2d0/0x380\n rtas_flash_write+0xe4/0x250\n proc_reg_write+0xfc/0x160\n vfs_write+0xfc/0x4e0\n ksys_write+0x90/0x160\n system_call_exception+0x178/0x320\n system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4\n\nThe blocks of the firmware image are copied directly from user memory\nto objects allocated from flash_block_cache, so flash_block_cache must\nbe created using kmem_cache_create_usercopy() to mark it safe for user\naccess.\n\n[mpe: Trim and indent oops]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f09cc15dcd91d16562400c51d24c7be0d5796fa"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d29e21ed09fa668416fa7721e08d451b9903485"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ba7f969be599e21d4b1f1e947593de6515f4996"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ef25fb13494e35c6dbe15445c7875fa92bc3e8b"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8fee83aa4ed3846c7f50a0b364bc699f48d96e5"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6acb8a453388374fafb3c3b37534b675b2aa0ae1"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f3175979e62de3b929bfa54a0db4b87d36257a7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"4.19.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.255","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.192","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.47","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","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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