CVE-2023-53655 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Linux

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-835 — Infinite Loop5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 7

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed Registering a kprobe on __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() can cause kernel stack overflow as shown below. This issue can be reproduced by enabling CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and booting the kernel with argument "nohz_full=", and then giving the following commands at the shell prompt: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/ # echo 'p:mp1 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick' >> kprobe_ev…

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

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.8 — 5.10.180+4
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.191-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxaaf2bc50df1f4bfc6857fc601fc7b21d5a18c6a1 — eb18bc5a8678f431c500e6da1b8b5f34478d5bc1+6
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2023-53655: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed Regi↗2025-10-07
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GHSA
GHSA-jw77-c2gh-pjqg: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed Re↗2025-10-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed↗2025-10-07
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Debian
CVE-2023-53655: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Avoid ...↗2023
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