CVE-2023-52993
Published: Mar 27, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/i8259: Mark legacy PIC interrupts with IRQ_LEVEL Baoquan reported that after triggering a crash the subsequent crash-kernel fails to boot about half of the time. It triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the periodic tick code. This happens because the legacy timer interrupt (IRQ0) is resent in software which happens in soft interrupt (tasklet) context. In this context get_irq_regs() returns NULL which leads to the NULL pointer dereference. The reason for the resend is a spurious APIC interrupt on the IRQ0 vector which is captured and leads to a resend when the legacy timer interrupt is enabled. This is wrong because the legacy PIC interrupts are level triggered and therefore should never be resent in software, but nothing ever sets the IRQ_LEVEL flag on those interrupts, so the core code does not know about their trigger type. Ensure that IRQ_LEVEL is set when the legacy PCI interrupts are set up.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected a4633adcdbc15ac51afcd0e1395de58cee27cf92 - < 744fe9be9665227335539b7a77ece8d9ff62b6c0affected a4633adcdbc15ac51afcd0e1395de58cee27cf92 - < 496975d1a2937f4baadf3d985991b13fc4fc4f27affected a4633adcdbc15ac51afcd0e1395de58cee27cf92 - < 8770cd9d7c14aa99c255a0d08186f0be953e1638affected a4633adcdbc15ac51afcd0e1395de58cee27cf92 - < e284c273dbb4c1ed68d4204bff94d0b10e4a90f5affected a4633adcdbc15ac51afcd0e1395de58cee27cf92 - < 0b08201158f177aab469e356b4d6af24fdd118df+2 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.18unaffected 0 - < 2.6.18unaffected 4.14.305 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.272 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.231 - <= 5.4.*+4 more versions |
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