CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53624

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-07
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-190

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of "credit" if sch_fq is configured with "initial quantum" having values greater than INT_MAX, the first assignment of "credit" does signed integer overflow to a very negative value. In this situation, the syzkaller script provided by Cristoph triggers the CPU soft-lockup warning even with few sockets. It's not an infinite loop, but "credit" wasn't probably meant to be minus 2Gb for each new flow. Capping "initial quantum" to INT_MAX proved to fix the issue. v2: validation of "initial quantum" is done in fq_policy, instead of open coding in fq_change() _ suggested by Jakub Kicinski

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.12 < 5.10.180) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.111) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.28) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.15) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.3 < 6.3.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References