CVE-2023-53624
Published: Oct 7, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of "credit" if sch_fq is configured with "initial quantum" having values greater than INT_MAX, the first assignment of "credit" does signed integer overflow to a very negative value. In this situation, the syzkaller script provided by Cristoph triggers the CPU soft-lockup warning even with few sockets. It's not an infinite loop, but "credit" wasn't probably meant to be minus 2Gb for each new flow. Capping "initial quantum" to INT_MAX proved to fix the issue. v2: validation of "initial quantum" is done in fq_policy, instead of open coding in fq_change() _ suggested by Jakub Kicinski
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc - < 4b8a05e3801661a0438fcd0cdef181030d966a5aaffected afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc - < d0b43125ec892aeb1b03e5df5aab595097da225aaffected afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc - < 4fbefeab88c6e79753a25099d455d3d59d2946b4affected afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc - < 85f24cb2f10b2b0f2882e5786a09b4790bb3a0adaffected afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc - < 2322462d6f9ad4874f4e3c63df3b5cc00cb1acbd+1 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.12unaffected 0 - < 3.12unaffected 5.10.180 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.111 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.28 - <= 6.1.*+3 more versions |
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