CVE-2023-53590

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.4.226-5.4.234 - Denial of Service via SCTP Stream Priority Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: add a refcnt in sctp_stream_priorities to avoid a nested loop With this refcnt added in sctp_stream_priorities, we don't need to traverse all streams to check if the prio is used by other streams when freeing one stream's prio in sctp_sched_prio_free_sid(). This can avoid a nested loop (up to 65535 * 65535), which may cause a stuck as Ying reported: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 26s! [ksoftirqd/23:136] Call Trace: <TASK> sctp_sched_prio_free_sid+0xab/0x100 [sctp] sctp_stream_free_ext+0x64/0xa0 [sctp] sctp_stream_free+0x31/0x50 [sctp] sctp_association_free+0xa5/0x200 [sctp] Note that it doesn't need to use refcount_t type for this counter, as its accessing is always protected under the sock lock. v1->v2: - add a check in sctp_sched_prio_set to avoid the possible prio_head refcnt overflow.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 1.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (21)
Linux/Linux < 6.1
Linux/Linux 0dfb9a566327182387c90100ea54d8426cee8c67 - bf5540cbd20e2dae2c81ab9b31deef41ef147d0a
Linux/Linux 176ee6c673ccd118e9392fd2dbb165423bdb99ca - 8ee401f89cdb10f39098c0656d695b2bc4052100
Linux/Linux 5.10.158 - 5.10.173
Linux/Linux 5.10.173 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.100 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.82 - 5.15.100
Linux/Linux 5.4.226 - 5.4.235
Linux/Linux 5.4.235 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.0.12 - 6.1
... and 11 more
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026