What is CVE-2023-54325?

CVE-2023-54325 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability, affecting Linux kernel versions from 5.11 onward and patched in 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 and others. CVE-2023-54325 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2023-54325?

CVE-2023-54325 has a CVSS score of pending NVD analysis out of 10, rated awaiting scoring severity.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2023-54325?

Yes, CVE-2023-54325 has been patched. Fixed versions include 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 and others. If you are running Linux kernel 5.11 or later up to the fix versions, apply the relevant patch for your kernel branch.

Is CVE-2023-54325 actively exploited?

CVE-2023-54325 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2023-54325

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: qat - fix out-of-bounds read When preparing an AER-CTR request, the driver copies the key provided by the user into a data structure that is accessible by the firmware. If the target device is QAT GEN4, the key size is rounded up by 16 since a rounded up size is expected by the device. If the key size is rounded up before the copy, the size used for copying the key might be bigger than the size of the region containing the key, causing an out-of-bounds read. Fix by doing the copy first and then update the keylen. This is to fix the following warning reported by KASAN: [ 138.150574] BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in qat_alg_skcipher_init_com.isra.0+0x197/0x250 [intel_qat] [ 138.150641] Read of size 32 at addr ffffffff88c402c0 by task cryptomgr_test/2340 [ 138.150651] CPU: 15 PID: 2340 Comm: cryptomgr_test Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1+ #45 [ 138.150659] Hardware name: Intel Corporation ArcherCity/ArcherCity, BIOS EGSDCRB1.86B.0087.D13.2208261706 08/26/2022 [ 138.150663] Call Trace: [ 138.150668] <TASK> [ 138.150922] kasan_check_range+0x13a/0x1c0 [ 138.150931] memcpy+0x1f/0x60 [ 138.150940] qat_alg_skcipher_init_com.isra.0+0x197/0x250 [intel_qat] [ 138.151006] qat_alg_skcipher_init_sessions+0xc1/0x240 [intel_qat] [ 138.151073] crypto_skcipher_setkey+0x82/0x160 [ 138.151085] ? prepare_keybuf+0xa2/0xd0 [ 138.151095] test_skcipher_vec_cfg+0x2b8/0x800

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2025-12-30

Last modified 2026-04-15

Patch available

Yes

Affected versions

Linux kernel versions 5.11 and later are affected. Fixed in 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3, 6.3 and their respective stable series.

Affected from

≥ 5.11

Fixed in

✓ 5.15.99 5.15.x ✓ 6.1.16 6.1.x ✓ 6.2.3 6.2.x ✓ 6.3

References

The following references provide additional information about CVE-2023-54325 including vendor advisories, patch commits, exploit details, and third-party analysis. Links are sourced from the NIST NVD database.

Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b1501f058245573a3aa6bf234d205dde1196184
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7697139d5dfd491f4c495a914a1dd68f6e827a0f
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc3809f390357c8992f0a23083da934a20fef9af
Patch

4 patch commits total View all on NVD

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-54325?

CVE-2023-54325 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability . It affects Linux kernel versions from 5.11 onward and has been patched in 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 and others. CVE-2023-54325 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2023-54325?

Yes — CVE-2023-54325 has been patched. Fixed versions include 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 and others. If you are running Linux kernel 5.11 or later up to the fix versions, apply the relevant patch for your kernel branch.
Is CVE-2023-54325 actively exploited?

No — CVE-2023-54325 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.