CVE-2023-52638

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.15.149 - Deadlock via j1939_socks_lock Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: j1939: prevent deadlock by changing j1939_socks_lock to rwlock The following 3 locks would race against each other, causing the deadlock situation in the Syzbot bug report: - j1939_socks_lock - active_session_list_lock - sk_session_queue_lock A reasonable fix is to change j1939_socks_lock to an rwlock, since in the rare situations where a write lock is required for the linked list that j1939_socks_lock is protecting, the code does not attempt to acquire any more locks. This would break the circular lock dependency, where, for example, the current thread already locks j1939_socks_lock and attempts to acquire sk_session_queue_lock, and at the same time, another thread attempts to acquire j1939_socks_lock while holding sk_session_queue_lock. NOTE: This patch along does not fix the unregister_netdevice bug reported by Syzbot; instead, it solves a deadlock situation to prepare for one or more further patches to actually fix the Syzbot bug, which appears to be a reference counting problem within the j1939 codebase. [mkl: remove unrelated newline change]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (14)
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.149 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5b9272e93f2efe3f6cda60cc2c26817b2ce49386 - 03358aba991668d3bb2c65b3c82aa32c36851170
Linux/Linux 5b9272e93f2efe3f6cda60cc2c26817b2ce49386 - 26dfe112ec2e95fe0099681f6aec33da13c2dd8e
Linux/Linux 5b9272e93f2efe3f6cda60cc2c26817b2ce49386 - 559b6322f9480bff68cfa98d108991e945a4f284
Linux/Linux 5b9272e93f2efe3f6cda60cc2c26817b2ce49386 - 6cdedc18ba7b9dacc36466e27e3267d201948c8d
Linux/Linux 5b9272e93f2efe3f6cda60cc2c26817b2ce49386 - aedda066d717a0b4335d7e0a00b2e3a61e40afcf
Linux/Linux 6.1.79 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.18 - 6.6.*
... and 4 more
Published Apr 03, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026