CVE-2023-53587

EUVD-2025-32311
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction

If something was written to the buffer just before destruction,
it may be possible (maybe not in a real system, but it did
happen in ARCH=um with time-travel) to destroy the ringbuffer
before the IRQ work ran, leading this KASAN report (or a crash
without KASAN):

    BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
    Read of size 8 at addr 000000006d640a48 by task swapper/0

    CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  O       6.3.0-rc1 #7
    Stack:
     60c4f20f 0c203d48 41b58ab3 60f224fc
     600477fa 60f35687 60c4f20f 601273dd
     00000008 6101eb00 6101eab0 615be548
    Call Trace:
     [<60047a58>] show_stack+0x25e/0x282
     [<60c609e0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x96/0xfd
     [<60c50d4c>] print_report+0x1a7/0x5a8
     [<603078d3>] kasan_report+0xc1/0xe9
     [<60308950>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1b/0x1d
     [<60232844>] irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
     [<602328b4>] irq_work_tick+0x24/0x34
     [<6017f9dc>] update_process_times+0x162/0x196
     [<6019f335>] tick_sched_handle+0x1a4/0x1c3
     [<6019fd9e>] tick_sched_timer+0x79/0x10c
     [<601812b9>] __hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x425/0x695
     [<60182913>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x2c4
     [<600486a3>] um_timer+0x164/0x183
     [...]

    Allocated by task 411:
     save_stack_trace+0x99/0xb5
     stack_trace_save+0x81/0x9b
     kasan_save_stack+0x2d/0x54
     kasan_set_track+0x34/0x3e
     kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x28
     ____kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x97
     __kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x12
     __kmalloc+0xb2/0xe8
     load_elf_phdrs+0xee/0x182
     [...]

    The buggy address belongs to the object at 000000006d640800
     which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
    The buggy address is located 584 bytes inside of
     freed 1024-byte region [000000006d640800, 000000006d640c00)

Add the appropriate irq_work_sync() so the work finishes before
the buffers are destroyed.

Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag below, there was only a
single global IRQ work, so this issue didn't exist.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
7.8 HIGH
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 5%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
3.10 ≤
𝑥
< 4.14.315
linuxlinux_kernel
4.15 ≤
𝑥
< 4.19.283
linuxlinux_kernel
4.20 ≤
𝑥
< 5.4.243
linuxlinux_kernel
5.5 ≤
𝑥
< 5.10.180
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.111
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.1.28
linuxlinux_kernel
6.2 ≤
𝑥
< 6.2.15
linuxlinux_kernel
6.3 ≤
𝑥
< 6.3.2
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
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Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.148-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.153-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.237-1
fixed
forky
6.16.9-1
fixed
sid
6.16.9-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.43-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.48-1
fixed