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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2023-53706 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9 ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps") added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax device

[NVD] CVE-2023-53706 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9 ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps") added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax device

lownvdPublished 2025-10-22

CVE-2023-53706 CVSS: None Published: 2025-10-22T14:15:45.197

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices

commit 4917f55b4ef9 ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps") added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax devices. But how vmemmap mappings are created are architecture

Indicators of compromise

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CVE-2023-53706cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53706