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CVE-2023-54306 (GCVE-0-2023-54306)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:23 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:19
VLAI
Title
net: tls: avoid hanging tasks on the tx_lock
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tls: avoid hanging tasks on the tx_lock syzbot sent a hung task report and Eric explains that adversarial receiver may keep RWIN at 0 for a long time, so we are not guaranteed to make forward progress. Thread which took tx_lock and went to sleep may not release tx_lock for hours. Use interruptible sleep where possible and reschedule the work if it can't take the lock. Testing: existing selftest passes
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 79ffe6087e9145d2377385cac48d0d6a6b4225a5 , < bde541a57b4204d0a800afbbd3d1c06c9cdb133f (git)
Affected: 79ffe6087e9145d2377385cac48d0d6a6b4225a5 , < 7123a4337bf73132bbfb5437e4dc83ba864a9a1e (git)
Affected: 79ffe6087e9145d2377385cac48d0d6a6b4225a5 , < be5d5d0637fd88c18ee76024bdb22649a1de00d6 (git)
Affected: 79ffe6087e9145d2377385cac48d0d6a6b4225a5 , < 1f800f6aae57d2d8f63d32fff383017cbc11cf65 (git)
Affected: 79ffe6087e9145d2377385cac48d0d6a6b4225a5 , < ccf1ccdc5926907befbe880b562b2a4b5f44c087 (git)
Affected: 79ffe6087e9145d2377385cac48d0d6a6b4225a5 , < f3221361dc85d4de22586ce8441ec2c67b454f5d (git)
Affected: c8d6817345f4ba228d07380e571676405e112872 (git)
Affected: 5.3.11 , < 5.4 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.100 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.18 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.5 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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