CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53624
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2322462d6f9ad4874f4e3c63df3b5cc00cb1acbd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b8a05e3801661a0438fcd0cdef181030d966a5a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fbefeab88c6e79753a25099d455d3d59d2946b4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7041101ff6c3073fd8f2e99920f535b111c929cb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85f24cb2f10b2b0f2882e5786a09b4790bb3a0ad Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0b43125ec892aeb1b03e5df5aab595097da225a Patch