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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53121" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:55:58.123Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:38:55.282Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53121" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53121.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53121" title: "tcp: tcp_make_synack() can be called from process context" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: tcp_make_synack() can be called from process context\n\ntcp_rtx_synack() now could be called in process context as explained in\n0a375c822497 (\"tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process\ncontext\").\n\ntcp_rtx_synack() might call tcp_make_synack(), which will touch per-CPU\nvariables with preemption enabled. This causes the following BUG:\n\n BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: ThriftIO1/5464\n caller is tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x10d/0x1a0\n check_preemption_disabled+0x104/0x110\n tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0\n tcp_v6_send_synack+0x5c/0x450\n tcp_rtx_synack+0xeb/0x1f0\n inet_rtx_syn_ack+0x34/0x60\n tcp_check_req+0x3af/0x9e0\n tcp_rcv_state_process+0x59b/0x2030\n tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x5f5/0x700\n release_sock+0x3a/0xf0\n tcp_sendmsg+0x33/0x40\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x2f2/0x490\n __sys_sendmsg+0x184/0x230\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90\n\nAvoid calling __TCP_INC_STATS() with will touch per-cpu variables. Use\nTCP_INC_STATS() which is safe to be called from context switch." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d493d4fe88195a144d6a277a90062a7534ed2192"},{"version":"8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e23ca307745be3df7fe9762f3e2a7e311a57852e"},{"version":"8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"442aa78ed70188b21ccd8669738448702c0a3281"},{"version":"8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77ad58bca0119e8cc3e0e9d91a3f22caa66e4dfa"},{"version":"8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad07290d63ff6689f50565b02f5b6f34ec15a5ca"},{"version":"8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9180aa4622a720b433e842b4d3aa34d73eec577a"},{"version":"8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7613cde8c0c1f02a7ec2e1d536c01b65b135fc1c"},{"version":"8336886f786fdacbc19b719c1f7ea91eb70706d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bced3f7db95ff2e6ca29dc4d1c9751ab5e736a09"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"4.14.311","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.279","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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