CVE-2023-53590 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-53590

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

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: add a refcnt in sctp_stream_priorities to avoid a nested loop With this refcnt added in sctp_stream_priorities, 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 sctp_sched_prio_free_sid(). 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 sctp_sched_prio_set to avoid the possible prio_head refcnt overflow.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
a7555681e50bdebed2c40ff7404ee73c2e932993, 176ee6c673ccd118e9392fd2dbb165423bdb99ca, 0dfb9a566327182387c90100ea54d8426cee8c67, 9ed7bfc79542119ac0a9e1ce8a2a5285e43433e9, fa20f88271259d42ebe66f0a8c4c20199e888c99, 5.4.226, 5.10.158, 5.15.82, 6.0.12, 6.1, 0, 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.100, 6.1.18, 6.2.5, 6.3

Timeline

Official Publish: October 4th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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