CVE-2023-52672 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 17
Latest updateJun 26
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
Commit c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") a
regression was introduced that would lock up resized pipes under certain
conditions. See the reproducer in [1].
The commit resizing the pipe ring size was moved to a different
function, doing that moved the wakeup for pipe->wr_wait before actually
raising pipe->max_usage. If a pipe was full before the resize occ…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxc73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd — 162ae0e78bdabf84ef10c1293c4ed7865cb7d3c8+6
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0