CVE-2023-53823 — Race Condition within a Thread in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 89.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block/rq_qos: protect rq_qos apis with a new lock
commit 50e34d78815e ("block: disable the elevator int del_gendisk")
move rq_qos_exit() from disk_release() to del_gendisk(), this will
introduce some problems:
1) If rq_qos_add() is triggered by enabling iocost/iolatency through
cgroupfs, then it can concurrent with del_gendisk(), it's not safe to
write 'q->rq_qos' concurrently.
2) Activate cgroup policy that is relied on rq_…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux50e34d78815e474d410f342fbe783b18192ca518 — 16398b4638b5cd8c1dc95fc940a1591a801d53ce+3
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2023-53823: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block/rq_qos: protect rq_qos apis with a new lock commit 50e34d78815e ("block: dis↗2025-12-09
GHSA▶
GHSA-h5mg-vw9m-f6v8: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block/rq_qos: protect rq_qos apis with a new lock
commit 50e34d78815e ("block: d↗2025-12-09