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Tracker / CVE-2023-53624

CVE-2023-53624

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of "credit" if sch_fq is configured with "initial quantum" having values greater than INT_MAX, the first assignment of "credit" does signed integer overflow to a very negative value. In this situation, the syzkaller script provided by Cristoph triggers the CPU soft-lockup warning even with few sockets. It's not an infinite loop, but "credit" wasn't probably meant to be minus 2Gb for each new flow. Capping "initial quantum" to INT_MAX proved to fix the issue. v2: validation of "initial quantum" is done in fq_policy, instead of open coding in fq_change() _ suggested by Jakub Kicinski

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.12 → 5.10.180
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.111
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.28
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.2.15
linux linux_kernel · 6.3 → 6.3.2

Analysis

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