CVE-2023-53590

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53590
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53590.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53590
Downstream
Published
2025-10-04T15:44:04.733Z
Modified
2026-04-02T09:44:32.583695Z
Summary
sctp: add a refcnt in sctp_stream_priorities to avoid a nested loop
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: add a refcnt in sctpstreampriorities to avoid a nested loop

With this refcnt added in sctpstreampriorities, we don't need to traverse all streams to check if the prio is used by other streams when freeing one stream's prio in sctpschedpriofreesid(). This can avoid a nested loop (up to 65535 * 65535), which may cause a stuck as Ying reported:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 26s! [ksoftirqd/23:136]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 sctp_sched_prio_free_sid+0xab/0x100 [sctp]
 sctp_stream_free_ext+0x64/0xa0 [sctp]
 sctp_stream_free+0x31/0x50 [sctp]
 sctp_association_free+0xa5/0x200 [sctp]

Note that it doesn't need to use refcount_t type for this counter, as its accessing is always protected under the sock lock.

v1->v2: - add a check in sctpschedprioset to avoid the possible priohead refcnt overflow.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53590.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a7555681e50bdebed2c40ff7404ee73c2e932993
Fixed
cec326443f01283ef68ea00c06ea073b1835a562
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
176ee6c673ccd118e9392fd2dbb165423bdb99ca
Fixed
8ee401f89cdb10f39098c0656d695b2bc4052100
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0dfb9a566327182387c90100ea54d8426cee8c67
Fixed
bf5540cbd20e2dae2c81ab9b31deef41ef147d0a
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
9ed7bfc79542119ac0a9e1ce8a2a5285e43433e9
Fixed
03c3a5584a0a29821e59b7834635ce823050caaa
Fixed
6d529928ea212127851a2df8c40d822237ca946b
Fixed
68ba44639537de6f91fe32783766322d41848127
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
fa20f88271259d42ebe66f0a8c4c20199e888c99

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53590.json"