vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-53815): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Dec 9, 2025 | Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete() itimer_delete() has a retry loop when the timer is concurrently expired. On non-RT kernels this just spin-waits until the timer callback has completed, except for posix CPU timers which have HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK enabled. In that case and on RT kernels the existing task could live lock when preempting the task which does the timer delivery. Replace spin_unlock() with an invocation of timer_wait_running() to handle it the same way as the other retry loops in the posix timer code.
Solutions
References
- CVE-2023-53815
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-53815
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/9d9e522010eb5685d8b53e8a24320653d9d4cbbf
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0670c4c567b27bd8f999a943028f4fe60d1a1106
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d9e522010eb5685d8b53e8a24320653d9d4cbbf
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1968bb8a28625cc95d2ad3ca872ab98c9c36d59
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7aff15ba29ba4b3052786b1636fa5c4aa39e179
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1be1ed32daa053484222f7f9beb2b16c624dffd
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9bd298e3e4d3fd6e19f017789a42d0f332cd555
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53815
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