{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52940 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-52940 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-52940 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-52940 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52940 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52940/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52940/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-52940","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52940/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-52940","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-52940","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52940","GHSA-c2p3-c9fp-43mx","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52940"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's multi-gen LRU during cgroup migration causes linked list corruption and kernel crashes.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration\n\nlru_gen_migrate_mm() assumes lru_gen_add_mm() runs prior to itself.  This\nisn't true for the following scenario:\n\n    CPU 1                         CPU 2\n\n  clone()\n    cgroup_can_fork()\n                                cgroup_procs_write()\n    cgroup_post_fork()\n                                  task_lock()\n                                  lru_gen_migrate_mm()\n                                  task_unlock()\n    task_lock()\n    lru_gen_add_mm()\n    task_unlock()\n\nAnd when the above happens, kernel crashes because of linked list\ncorruption (mm_struct-\u003elru_gen.list).","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration","id":"CVE-2023-52940","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"can: isotp: split tx timer into transmission and timeout","id":"CVE-2023-52941"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath()","id":"CVE-2023-52939"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-03-27","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's multi-gen LRU during cgroup migration causes linked list corruption and kernel crashes.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52940/"}