{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2023-53587", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-10-04T15:40:38.477Z", "datePublished": "2025-10-04T15:44:02.679Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-04T09:15:32.336Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-04T09:15:32.336Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction\n\nIf something was written to the buffer just before destruction,\nit may be possible (maybe not in a real system, but it did\nhappen in ARCH=um with time-travel) to destroy the ringbuffer\nbefore the IRQ work ran, leading this KASAN report (or a crash\nwithout KASAN):\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a\n Read of size 8 at addr 000000006d640a48 by task swapper/0\n\n CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W O 6.3.0-rc1 #7\n Stack:\n 60c4f20f 0c203d48 41b58ab3 60f224fc\n 600477fa 60f35687 60c4f20f 601273dd\n 00000008 6101eb00 6101eab0 615be548\n Call Trace:\n [<60047a58>] show_stack+0x25e/0x282\n [<60c609e0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x96/0xfd\n [<60c50d4c>] print_report+0x1a7/0x5a8\n [<603078d3>] kasan_report+0xc1/0xe9\n [<60308950>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1b/0x1d\n [<60232844>] irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a\n [<602328b4>] irq_work_tick+0x24/0x34\n [<6017f9dc>] update_process_times+0x162/0x196\n [<6019f335>] tick_sched_handle+0x1a4/0x1c3\n [<6019fd9e>] tick_sched_timer+0x79/0x10c\n [<601812b9>] __hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x425/0x695\n [<60182913>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x2c4\n [<600486a3>] um_timer+0x164/0x183\n [...]\n\n Allocated by task 411:\n save_stack_trace+0x99/0xb5\n stack_trace_save+0x81/0x9b\n kasan_save_stack+0x2d/0x54\n kasan_set_track+0x34/0x3e\n kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x28\n ____kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x97\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x12\n __kmalloc+0xb2/0xe8\n load_elf_phdrs+0xee/0x182\n [...]\n\n The buggy address belongs to the object at 000000006d640800\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024\n The buggy address is located 584 bytes inside of\n freed 1024-byte region [000000006d640800, 000000006d640c00)\n\nAdd the appropriate irq_work_sync() so the work finishes before\nthe buffers are destroyed.\n\nPrior to the commit in the Fixes tag below, there was only a\nsingle global IRQ work, so this issue didn't exist." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" } } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c" ], 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