CVE-2023-53121

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-05-02 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: tcp_make_synack() can be called from process context tcp_rtx_synack() now could be called in process context as explained in 0a375c822497 ("tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context"). tcp_rtx_synack() might call tcp_make_synack(), which will touch per-CPU variables with preemption enabled. This causes the following BUG: BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: ThriftIO1/5464 caller is tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x10d/0x1a0 check_preemption_disabled+0x104/0x110 tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0 tcp_v6_send_synack+0x5c/0x450 tcp_rtx_synack+0xeb/0x1f0 inet_rtx_syn_ack+0x34/0x60 tcp_check_req+0x3af/0x9e0 tcp_rcv_state_process+0x59b/0x2030 tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x5f5/0x700 release_sock+0x3a/0xf0 tcp_sendmsg+0x33/0x40 ____sys_sendmsg+0x2f2/0x490 __sys_sendmsg+0x184/0x230 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90 Avoid calling __TCP_INC_STATS() with will touch per-cpu variables. Use TCP_INC_STATS() which is safe to be called from context switch.

Affected Software (12)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4 < d493d4fe88195a144d6a277a90062a7534ed2192
Linux Linux 8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4 < e23ca307745be3df7fe9762f3e2a7e311a57852e
Linux Linux 8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4 < 442aa78ed70188b21ccd8669738448702c0a3281
Linux Linux 8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4 < 77ad58bca0119e8cc3e0e9d91a3f22caa66e4dfa
Linux Linux 8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4 < ad07290d63ff6689f50565b02f5b6f34ec15a5ca
Linux Linux 8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4 < 9180aa4622a720b433e842b4d3aa34d73eec577a
Linux Linux 8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4 < 7613cde8c0c1f02a7ec2e1d536c01b65b135fc1c
Linux Linux 8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4 < bced3f7db95ff2e6ca29dc4d1c9751ab5e736a09
Linux Linux 3.7
linux linux_kernel 3.7 – 4.14.311
linux linux_kernel 6.3
linux linux_kernel 6.3

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.19%
Raw Score 0.001890
Percentile 8.5%
Date 2026-11-06

EPSS Trend

2026-11-06
0.00189
2026-11-05
0.00189

Intelligence Sources

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