CVE-2023-53461

MEDIUM EPSS 4.1%
Published Oct 1, 20259mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Oct 1, 2025 9mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit WHen the ring exits, cleanup is done and the final cancelation and waiting on completions is done by io_ring_exit_work. That function is invoked by kworker, which doesn't take any signals. Because of that, it doesn't really matter if we wait for completions in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE or TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. However, it does matter to the hung task detection checker! Normally we expect cancelations and completions to happen rather quickly. Some test cases, however, will exit the ring and park the owning task stopped (eg via SIGSTOP). If the owning task needs to run task_work to complete requests, then io_ring_exit_work won't make any progress until the task is runnable again. Hence io_ring_exit_work can trigger the hung task detection, which is particularly problematic if panic-on-hung-task is enabled. As the ring exit doesn't take signals to begin with, have it wait interruptibly rather than uninterruptibly. io_uring has a separate stuck-exit warning that triggers independently anyway, so we're not really missing anything by making this switch.

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
4.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Affected Products 4

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.1  –  <5.10.188
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.11  –  <5.15.121
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.16  –  <6.1.39
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.2  –  <6.4.4

References 5

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28e649dc9947e6525c95e32aa9a8e147925e3f56
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4826c59453b3b4677d6bf72814e7ababdea86949
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58e80cb68b057e974768792c34708c6957810486
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e29835366138389bfad3b31ea06960d0a77bf77
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b50d6e06cca7b67a3d73ca660dda27662b76e6ea
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28e649dc9947e6525c95e32aa9a8e147925e3f56
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4826c59453b3b4677d6bf72814e7ababdea86949
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58e80cb68b057e974768792c34708c6957810486
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e29835366138389bfad3b31ea06960d0a77bf77
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b50d6e06cca7b67a3d73ca660dda27662b76e6ea
    Patch