CVE-2023-53712

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Synchronous SMP Stop Call in Panic

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous If a panic is triggered by a hrtimer interrupt all online cpus will be notified and set offline. But as highlighted by commit 19dbdcb8039c ("smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context") this call should not be made synchronous with disabled interrupts: softdog: Initiating panic Kernel panic - not syncing: Software Watchdog Timer expired WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:753 smp_call_function_many_cond unwind_backtrace: show_stack dump_stack_lvl __warn warn_slowpath_fmt smp_call_function_many_cond smp_call_function crash_smp_send_stop.part.0 machine_crash_shutdown __crash_kexec panic softdog_fire __hrtimer_run_queues hrtimer_interrupt Make the smp call for machine_crash_nonpanic_core() asynchronous.

Scores

EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.4%

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 2.6.38 - 5.15.133linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.55linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.5.5linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.38
Linux/Linux 2.6.38
Linux/Linux 5.15.133 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.55 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.5.5 - 6.5.*
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux b23065313297e750edd57ab6edfd36224826724e - 46870eea5496ff277e86187a49ac5a667cfe60c4
... and 3 more
Published Oct 22, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026