CVE-2023-53815
Published: Dec 9, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete() itimer_delete() has a retry loop when the timer is concurrently expired. On non-RT kernels this just spin-waits until the timer callback has completed, except for posix CPU timers which have HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK enabled. In that case and on RT kernels the existing task could live lock when preempting the task which does the timer delivery. Replace spin_unlock() with an invocation of timer_wait_running() to handle it the same way as the other retry loops in the posix timer code.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected ec8f954a40da8cd3d159713b608e901f0cd909a9 - < f1be1ed32daa053484222f7f9beb2b16c624dffdaffected ec8f954a40da8cd3d159713b608e901f0cd909a9 - < 0670c4c567b27bd8f999a943028f4fe60d1a1106affected ec8f954a40da8cd3d159713b608e901f0cd909a9 - < e7aff15ba29ba4b3052786b1636fa5c4aa39e179affected ec8f954a40da8cd3d159713b608e901f0cd909a9 - < f9bd298e3e4d3fd6e19f017789a42d0f332cd555affected ec8f954a40da8cd3d159713b608e901f0cd909a9 - < c1968bb8a28625cc95d2ad3ca872ab98c9c36d59+1 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.4unaffected 0 - < 5.4unaffected 5.10.188 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.121 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.39 - <= 6.1.*+3 more versions |
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