CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53590
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: add a refcnt in sctp_stream_priorities to avoid a nested loop
With this refcnt added in sctp_stream_priorities, we don't need to
traverse all streams to check if the prio is used by other streams
when freeing one stream's prio in sctp_sched_prio_free_sid(). This
can avoid a nested loop (up to 65535 * 65535), which may cause a
stuck as Ying reported:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 26s! [ksoftirqd/23:136]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
sctp_sched_prio_free_sid+0xab/0x100 [sctp]
sctp_stream_free_ext+0x64/0xa0 [sctp]
sctp_stream_free+0x31/0x50 [sctp]
sctp_association_free+0xa5/0x200 [sctp]
Note that it doesn't need to use refcount_t type for this counter,
as its accessing is always protected under the sock lock.
v1->v2:
- add a check in sctp_sched_prio_set to avoid the possible prio_head
refcnt overflow.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.226 < 5.4.235)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.158 < 5.10.173)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.82 < 5.15.100)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0.12 < 6.1)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.1 < 6.1.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c3a5584a0a29821e59b7834635ce823050caaa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68ba44639537de6f91fe32783766322d41848127 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d529928ea212127851a2df8c40d822237ca946b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ee401f89cdb10f39098c0656d695b2bc4052100 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf5540cbd20e2dae2c81ab9b31deef41ef147d0a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cec326443f01283ef68ea00c06ea073b1835a562 Patch