{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54227 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-54227 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-54227 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-54227 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54227 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. 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-2023-54227/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54227/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-54227","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54227/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-54227","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-54227","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54227","GHSA-5vch-5hxh-2rq8","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2023-54227","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-54227","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54227"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel block layer allows local attackers to exhaust system memory, potentially causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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\nblk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nr_hw_queues\n\nAlthough we don't need to realloc set-\u003etags[] when shrink nr_hw_queues,\nwe need to free them. Or these tags will be leaked.\n\nHow to reproduce:\n1. mount -t configfs configfs /mnt\n2. modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 submit_queues=8\n3. mkdir /mnt/nullb/nullb0\n4. echo 1 \u003e /mnt/nullb/nullb0/power\n5. echo 4 \u003e /mnt/nullb/nullb0/submit_queues\n6. rmdir /mnt/nullb/nullb0\n\nIn step 4, will alloc 9 tags (8 submit queues and 1 poll queue), then\nin step 5, new_nr_hw_queues = 5 (4 submit queues and 1 poll queue).\nAt last in step 6, only these 5 tags are freed, the other 4 tags leaked.","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":"blk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nr_hw_queues","id":"CVE-2023-54227","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"regulator: raa215300: Fix resource leak in case of error","id":"CVE-2023-54228"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"af_unix: Fix data races around sk-\u003esk_shutdown.","id":"CVE-2023-54226"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-30","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel block layer allows local attackers to exhaust system memory, potentially causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54227/"}