CVE-2023-53348 — Improper Locking in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix deadlock when aborting transaction during relocation with scrub
Before relocating a block group we pause scrub, then do the relocation and
then unpause scrub. The relocation process requires starting and committing
a transaction, and if we have a failure in the critical section of the
transaction commit path (transaction state >= TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START),
we will deadlock if there is a paused scrub.
That results i…
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 Packages7 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux55e3a601c81cdca4497bf855fa4d331f8e830744 — 6134a4bb6b1c411a244edee041ac89266c78d45c+3
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2023-53348: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix deadlock when aborting transaction during relocation with scrub Before↗2025-09-17
GHSA▶
GHSA-vmvh-gj86-w48f: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix deadlock when aborting transaction during relocation with scrub
Befor↗2025-09-17