vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-53624): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Oct 7, 2025 | Oct 10, 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 |
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
Solutions
References
- CVE-2023-53624
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-53624
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/7041101ff6c3073fd8f2e99920f535b111c929cb
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2322462d6f9ad4874f4e3c63df3b5cc00cb1acbd
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b8a05e3801661a0438fcd0cdef181030d966a5a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fbefeab88c6e79753a25099d455d3d59d2946b4
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7041101ff6c3073fd8f2e99920f535b111c929cb
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85f24cb2f10b2b0f2882e5786a09b4790bb3a0ad
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0b43125ec892aeb1b03e5df5aab595097da225a
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53624
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