fkie_cve-2023-53624
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-10-07 16:15
Modified
2025-10-08 19:38
Severity ?
Summary
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
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2322462d6f9ad4874f4e3c63df3b5cc00cb1acbd
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b8a05e3801661a0438fcd0cdef181030d966a5a
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fbefeab88c6e79753a25099d455d3d59d2946b4
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7041101ff6c3073fd8f2e99920f535b111c929cb
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85f24cb2f10b2b0f2882e5786a09b4790bb3a0ad
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0b43125ec892aeb1b03e5df5aab595097da225a
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{
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of \"credit\"\n\nif sch_fq is configured with \"initial quantum\" having values greater than\nINT_MAX, the first assignment of \"credit\" does signed integer overflow to\na very negative value.\nIn this situation, the syzkaller script provided by Cristoph triggers the\nCPU soft-lockup warning even with few sockets. It\u0027s not an infinite loop,\nbut \"credit\" wasn\u0027t probably meant to be minus 2Gb for each new flow.\nCapping \"initial quantum\" to INT_MAX proved to fix the issue.\n\nv2: validation of \"initial quantum\" is done in fq_policy, instead of open\n    coding in fq_change() _ suggested by Jakub Kicinski"
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2023-53624",
  "lastModified": "2025-10-08T19:38:32.610",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-10-07T16:15:45.190",
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  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}


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