{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53558 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53558 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Oct 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-2023-53558 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53558 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Oct 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-2023-53558 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-2023-53558/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53558/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53558","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53558/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53558","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53558","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53558","GHSA-449w-38pp-j3qp","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-53558","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53558","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53558"],"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 kernel bug causes a system crash when printing logs while holding a spin lock, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"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\nrcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic()\n\npr_info() is called with rtp-\u003ecbs_gbl_lock spin lock locked.  Because\npr_info() calls printk() that might sleep, this will result in BUG\nlike below:\n\n[    0.206455] cblist_init_generic: Setting adjustable number of callback queues.\n[    0.206463]\n[    0.206464] =============================\n[    0.206464] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]\n[    0.206465] 5.19.0-00428-g9de1f9c8ca51 #5 Not tainted\n[    0.206466] -----------------------------\n[    0.206466] swapper/0/1 is trying to lock:\n[    0.206467] ffffffffa0167a58 (\u0026port_lock_key){....}-{3:3}, at: serial8250_console_write+0x327/0x4a0\n[    0.206473] other info that might help us debug this:\n[    0.206473] context-{5:5}\n[    0.206474] 3 locks held by swapper/0/1:\n[    0.206474]  #0: ffffffff9eb597e0 (rcu_tasks.cbs_gbl_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: cblist_init_generic.constprop.0+0x14/0x1f0\n[    0.206478]  #1: ffffffff9eb579c0 (console_lock){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: _printk+0x63/0x7e\n[    0.206482]  #2: ffffffff9ea77780 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}, at: console_emit_next_record.constprop.0+0x111/0x330\n[    0.206485] stack backtrace:\n[    0.206486] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-00428-g9de1f9c8ca51 #5\n[    0.206488] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-1.fc36 04/01/2014\n[    0.206489] Call Trace:\n[    0.206490]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[    0.206491]  dump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x9f\n[    0.206493]  __lock_acquire.cold+0x2d7/0x2fe\n[    0.206496]  ? stack_trace_save+0x46/0x70\n[    0.206497]  lock_acquire+0xd1/0x2f0\n[    0.206499]  ? serial8250_console_write+0x327/0x4a0\n[    0.206500]  ? __lock_acquire+0x5c7/0x2720\n[    0.206502]  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3d/0x90\n[    0.206504]  ? serial8250_console_write+0x327/0x4a0\n[    0.206506]  serial8250_console_write+0x327/0x4a0\n[    0.206508]  console_emit_next_record.constprop.0+0x180/0x330\n[    0.206511]  console_unlock+0xf7/0x1f0\n[    0.206512]  vprintk_emit+0xf7/0x330\n[    0.206514]  _printk+0x63/0x7e\n[    0.206516]  cblist_init_generic.constprop.0.cold+0x24/0x32\n[    0.206518]  rcu_init_tasks_generic+0x5/0xd9\n[    0.206522]  kernel_init_freeable+0x15b/0x2a2\n[    0.206523]  ? rest_init+0x160/0x160\n[    0.206526]  kernel_init+0x11/0x120\n[    0.206527]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n[    0.206530]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[    0.207018] cblist_init_generic: Setting shift to 1 and lim to 1.\n\nThis patch moves pr_info() so that it is called without\nrtp-\u003ecbs_gbl_lock locked.","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":"rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic()","id":"CVE-2023-53558","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"ip_vti: fix potential slab-use-after-free in decode_session6","id":"CVE-2023-53559"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"fprobe: Release rethook after the ftrace_ops is unregistered","id":"CVE-2023-53557"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-04","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 kernel bug causes a system crash when printing logs while holding a spin lock, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53558/"}