vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-53121): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 2, 2025 | May 8, 2025 | Jun 12, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: tcp_make_synack() can be called from process context
tcp_rtx_synack() now could be called in process context as explained in
0a375c822497 ("tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process
context").
tcp_rtx_synack() might call tcp_make_synack(), which will touch per-CPU
variables with preemption enabled. This causes the following BUG:
BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: ThriftIO1/5464
caller is tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x10d/0x1a0
check_preemption_disabled+0x104/0x110
tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0
tcp_v6_send_synack+0x5c/0x450
tcp_rtx_synack+0xeb/0x1f0
inet_rtx_syn_ack+0x34/0x60
tcp_check_req+0x3af/0x9e0
tcp_rcv_state_process+0x59b/0x2030
tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x5f5/0x700
release_sock+0x3a/0xf0
tcp_sendmsg+0x33/0x40
____sys_sendmsg+0x2f2/0x490
__sys_sendmsg+0x184/0x230
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
Avoid calling __TCP_INC_STATS() with will touch per-cpu variables. Use
TCP_INC_STATS() which is safe to be called from context switch.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2023-53121
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-53121
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/bced3f7db95ff2e6ca29dc4d1c9751ab5e736a09
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/442aa78ed70188b21ccd8669738448702c0a3281
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7613cde8c0c1f02a7ec2e1d536c01b65b135fc1c
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77ad58bca0119e8cc3e0e9d91a3f22caa66e4dfa
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9180aa4622a720b433e842b4d3aa34d73eec577a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad07290d63ff6689f50565b02f5b6f34ec15a5ca
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bced3f7db95ff2e6ca29dc4d1c9751ab5e736a09
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d493d4fe88195a144d6a277a90062a7534ed2192
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e23ca307745be3df7fe9762f3e2a7e311a57852e
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53121

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