{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54246 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-54246 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 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-2023-54246 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-54246 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 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-2023-54246 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-2023-54246/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54246/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-54246","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54246/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-54246","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-54246","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54246","GHSA-qqm3-hrh7-jh6j","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54246"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A local attacker with high privileges can trigger a hung task warning and potential system instability by setting a specific kernel module parameter.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrcuscale: Move rcu_scale_writer() schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() to _idle()\n\nThe rcuscale.holdoff module parameter can be used to delay the start\nof rcu_scale_writer() kthread.  However, the hung-task timeout will\ntrigger when the timeout specified by rcuscale.holdoff is greater than\nhung_task_timeout_secs:\n\nrunqemu kvm nographic slirp qemuparams=\"-smp 4 -m 2048M\"\nbootparams=\"rcuscale.shutdown=0 rcuscale.holdoff=300\"\n\n[  247.071753] INFO: task rcu_scale_write:59 blocked for more than 122 seconds.\n[  247.072529]       Not tainted 6.4.0-rc1-00134-gb9ed6de8d4ff #7\n[  247.073400] \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n[  247.074331] task:rcu_scale_write state:D stack:30144 pid:59    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000\n[  247.075346] Call Trace:\n[  247.075660]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  247.075965]  __schedule+0x635/0x1280\n[  247.076448]  ? __pfx___schedule+0x10/0x10\n[  247.076967]  ? schedule_timeout+0x2dc/0x4d0\n[  247.077471]  ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10\n[  247.078018]  ? enqueue_timer+0xe2/0x220\n[  247.078522]  schedule+0x84/0x120\n[  247.078957]  schedule_timeout+0x2e1/0x4d0\n[  247.079447]  ? __pfx_schedule_timeout+0x10/0x10\n[  247.080032]  ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10\n[  247.080591]  ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10\n[  247.081163]  ? __pfx_sched_set_fifo_low+0x10/0x10\n[  247.081760]  ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10\n[  247.082287]  rcu_scale_writer+0x6b1/0x7f0\n[  247.082773]  ? mark_held_locks+0x29/0xa0\n[  247.083252]  ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10\n[  247.083865]  ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10\n[  247.084412]  kthread+0x179/0x1c0\n[  247.084759]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[  247.085098]  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50\n[  247.085433]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThis commit therefore replaces schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() with\nschedule_timeout_idle().","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":"rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_writer() schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() to _idle()","id":"CVE-2023-54246","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"bpf: Silence a warning in btf_type_id_size()","id":"CVE-2023-54247"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ASoC: codecs: tx-macro: Fix for KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds","id":"CVE-2023-54245"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-30","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker with high privileges can trigger a hung task warning and potential system instability by setting a specific kernel module parameter.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54246/"}