CVE-2023-52498

Published: 11 March 2024

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM: sleep: Fix possible deadlocks in core system-wide PM code It is reported that in low-memory situations the system-wide resume core code deadlocks, because async_schedule_dev() executes its argument function synchronously if it cannot allocate memory (and not only in that case) and that function attempts to acquire a mutex that is already held. Executing the argument function synchronously from within dpm_async_fn() may also be problematic for ordering reasons (it may cause a consumer device's resume callback to be invoked before a requisite supplier device's one, for example). Address this by changing the code in question to use async_schedule_dev_nocall() for scheduling the asynchronous execution of device suspend and resume functions and to directly run them synchronously if async_schedule_dev_nocall() returns false.

Notes

USN-6765-1 for linux-oem-6.5 wrongly stated that this CVE
was fixed in version 6.5.0-1022.23. The mentioned notice was revoked and
the state of the fix for linux-oem-6.5 was recovered to the previous
state.

Status

References

• https://git.kernel.org/linus/7839d0078e0d5e6cc2fa0b0dfbee71de74f1e557 (6.8-rc1)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f46eb832389f162ad13cb780d0b8cde93641990d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1d62c775b07213c73f81ae842424c74dd14b5f0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1c9d32c98309ae764893a481552d3f99d46cb34
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e681e29d1f59a04ef773296e4bebb17b1b79f8fe
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bd3dce27b01c51295b60e1433e1dadfb16649f7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7839d0078e0d5e6cc2fa0b0dfbee71de74f1e557
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52498
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-3
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6795-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6828-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-3
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-3
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-4
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-4
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian