CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53590

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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