CVE-2023-53620

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 2.6.12-6.1.30 - Denial of Service via Soft Lockup in MD Resync Status

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md: fix soft lockup in status_resync status_resync() will calculate 'curr_resync - recovery_active' to show user a progress bar like following: [============>........] resync = 61.4% 'curr_resync' and 'recovery_active' is updated in md_do_sync(), and status_resync() can read them concurrently, hence it's possible that 'curr_resync - recovery_active' can overflow to a huge number. In this case status_resync() will be stuck in the loop to print a large amount of '=', which will end up soft lockup. Fix the problem by setting 'resync' to MD_RESYNC_ACTIVE in this case, this way resync in progress will be reported to user.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.6%
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 (10)
Linux/Linux < 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 23309704e90859af2662bedc44101e6d1d2ece7e
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 6efddf1e32e2a264694766ca485a4f5e04ee82a7
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - b4acb6c3ede88d6b7d33742a09e63cfce5e7fb69
Linux/Linux 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 6.1.30 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.3.4 - 6.3.*
Linux/Linux 6.4
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.12 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.12.1 - 6.1.30
Published Oct 07, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026