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CVE-2023-53590

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CVE-2023-53590

Published: Oct 4, 2025

Modified: May 23, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
a7555681e50bdebed2c40ff7404ee73c2e932993 - < cec326443f01283ef68ea00c06ea073b1835a562
affected
176ee6c673ccd118e9392fd2dbb165423bdb99ca - < 8ee401f89cdb10f39098c0656d695b2bc4052100
affected
0dfb9a566327182387c90100ea54d8426cee8c67 - < bf5540cbd20e2dae2c81ab9b31deef41ef147d0a
affected
9ed7bfc79542119ac0a9e1ce8a2a5285e43433e9 - < 03c3a5584a0a29821e59b7834635ce823050caaa
affected
9ed7bfc79542119ac0a9e1ce8a2a5285e43433e9 - < 6d529928ea212127851a2df8c40d822237ca946b

+6 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
6.1
unaffected
0 - < 6.1
unaffected
5.4.235 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.173 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.100 - <= 5.15.*

+3 more versions

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