CVE-2023-53607

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-10-04. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

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

ALSA: ymfpci: Fix BUG_ON in probe function

The snd_dma_buffer.bytes field now contains the aligned size, which this snd_BUG_ON() did not account for, resulting in the following:

[ 9.625915] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 9.633440] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 126 at sound/pci/ymfpci/ymfpci_main.c:2168 snd_ymfpci_create+0x681/0x698 [snd_ymfpci] [ 9.648926] Modules linked in: snd_ymfpci(+) snd_intel_dspcfg kvm(+) snd_intel_sdw_acpi snd_ac97_codec snd_mpu401_uart snd_opl3_lib irqbypass snd_hda_codec gameport snd_rawmidi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul cfg80211 snd_hda_core polyval_clmulni polyval_generic gf128mul snd_seq_device ghash_clmulni_intel snd_hwdep ac97_bus sha512_ssse3 rfkill snd_pcm aesni_intel tg3 snd_timer crypto_simd snd mxm_wmi libphy cryptd k10temp fam15h_power pcspkr soundcore sp5100_tco wmi acpi_cpufreq mac_hid dm_multipath sg loop fuse dm_mod bpf_preload ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 sr_mod cdrom ata_generic pata_acpi firewire_ohci crc32c_intel firewire_core xhci_pci crc_itu_t pata_via xhci_pci_renesas floppy [ 9.711849] CPU: 0 PID: 126 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.1.21-1-lts #1 08d2e5ece03136efa7c6aeea9a9c40916b1bd8da [ 9.722200] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./990FX Extreme4, BIOS P2.70 06/05/2014 [ 9.732204] Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn [ 9.736580] RIP: 0010:snd_ymfpci_create+0x681/0x698 [snd_ymfpci] [ 9.742594] Code: 8c c0 4c 89 e2 48 89 df 48 c7 c6 92 c6 8c c0 e8 15 d0 e9 ff 48 83 c4 08 44 89 e8 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f e9 d3 7a 33 e3 <0f> 0b e9 cb fd ff ff 41 bd fb ff ff ff eb db 41 bd f4 ff ff ff eb [ 9.761358] RSP: 0018:ffffab64804e7da0 EFLAGS: 00010287 [ 9.766594] RAX: ffff8fa2df06c400 RBX: ffff8fa3073a8000 RCX: ffff8fa303fbc4a8 [ 9.773734] RDX: ffff8fa2df06d000 RSI: 0000000000000010 RDI: 0000000000000020 [ 9.780876] RBP: ffff8fa300b5d0d0 R08: ffff8fa3073a8e50 R09: 00000000df06bf00 [ 9.788018] R10: ffff8fa2df06bf00 R11: 00000000df068200 R12: ffff8fa3073a8918 [ 9.795159] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000080 R15: ffff8fa2df068200 [ 9.802317] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8fa9fec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 9.810414] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 9.816158] CR2: 000055febaf66500 CR3: 0000000101a2e000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 [ 9.823301] Call Trace: [ 9.825747] [ 9.827889] snd_card_ymfpci_probe+0x194/0x950 [snd_ymfpci b78a5fe64b5663a6390a909c67808567e3e73615] [ 9.837030] ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x90/0x2d0 [ 9.841918] local_pci_probe+0x45/0x80 [ 9.845680] work_for_cpu_fn+0x1a/0x30 [ 9.849431] process_one_work+0x1c7/0x380 [ 9.853464] worker_thread+0x1af/0x390 [ 9.857225] ? rescuer_thread+0x3b0/0x3b0 [ 9.861254] kthread+0xde/0x110 [ 9.864414] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ 9.869210] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 9.872792] [ 9.874985] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
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EPSS
4.1%
KEV
Not listed

Published

October 4, 2025

Last Modified

March 23, 2026

References (5)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-53607(3)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_92023-11-14redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_32023-11-07redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-348.el82021-11-09redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-53607?
CVE-2023-53607 is a medium vulnerability published on October 4, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ymfpci: Fix BUG_ON in probe function The snddmabuffer.bytes field now contains the aligned size, which this sndBUGON() did not account for, resulting in the following: [ 9.625915] ------------[ cut here ]------------ […
When was CVE-2023-53607 disclosed?
CVE-2023-53607 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on October 4, 2025, with the most recent update on March 23, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2023-53607 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-53607 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 4.1% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-53607?
CVE-2023-53607 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-53607?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2023-53607, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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