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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53614"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:44:21.671Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:48:33.960Z"
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-2023-53614"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53614.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53614"
title: "mm/ksm: fix race with VMA iteration and mm_struct teardown"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/ksm: fix race with VMA iteration and mm_struct teardown\n\nexit_mmap() will tear down the VMAs and maple tree with the mmap_lock held\nin write mode.  Ensure that the maple tree is still valid by checking\nksm_test_exit() after taking the mmap_lock in read mode, but before the\nfor_each_vma() iterator dereferences a destroyed maple tree.\n\nSince the maple tree is destroyed, the flags telling lockdep to check an\nexternal lock has been cleared.  Skip the for_each_vma() iterator to avoid\ndereferencing a maple tree without the external lock flag, which would\ncreate a lockdep warning."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a5f18ba0727656bd1fe3bcdb0d563f81790f9a04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"286b0cab31bac29960e5684f6fb331d42f03b363"},{"version":"a5f18ba0727656bd1fe3bcdb0d563f81790f9a04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4f664ffd8f78c05a1fd542a28bc5a11e994c014"},{"version":"a5f18ba0727656bd1fe3bcdb0d563f81790f9a04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6db504ce55bdbc575723938fc480713c9183f6a2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.9","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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