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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53329" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-16T16:12:05.196Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:42:50.647Z" 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-2023-53329" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53329.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53329" title: "workqueue: fix data race with the pwq-\u003estats[] increment" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nworkqueue: fix data race with the pwq-\u003estats[] increment\n\nKCSAN has discovered a data race in kernel/workqueue.c:2598:\n\n[ 1863.554079] ==================================================================\n[ 1863.554118] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in process_one_work / process_one_work\n\n[ 1863.554142] write to 0xffff963d99d79998 of 8 bytes by task 5394 on cpu 27:\n[ 1863.554154] process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:2598)\n[ 1863.554166] worker_thread (./include/linux/list.h:292 kernel/workqueue.c:2752)\n[ 1863.554177] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:389)\n[ 1863.554186] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)\n[ 1863.554197] ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)\n\n[ 1863.554213] read to 0xffff963d99d79998 of 8 bytes by task 5450 on cpu 12:\n[ 1863.554224] process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:2598)\n[ 1863.554235] worker_thread (./include/linux/list.h:292 kernel/workqueue.c:2752)\n[ 1863.554247] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:389)\n[ 1863.554255] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)\n[ 1863.554266] ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)\n\n[ 1863.554280] value changed: 0x0000000000001766 -\u003e 0x000000000000176a\n\n[ 1863.554295] Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\n[ 1863.554303] CPU: 12 PID: 5450 Comm: kworker/u64:1 Tainted: G L 6.5.0-rc6+ #44\n[ 1863.554314] Hardware name: ASRock X670E PG Lightning/X670E PG Lightning, BIOS 1.21 04/26/2023\n[ 1863.554322] Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_end_bio_work [btrfs]\n[ 1863.554941] ==================================================================\n\n lockdep_invariant_state(true);\n→ pwq-\u003estats[PWQ_STAT_STARTED]++;\n trace_workqueue_execute_start(work);\n worker-\u003ecurrent_func(work);\n\nMoving pwq-\u003estats[PWQ_STAT_STARTED]++; before the line\n\n raw_spin_unlock_irq(&pool-\u003elock);\n\nresolves the data race without performance penalty.\n\nKCSAN detected at least one additional data race:\n\n[ 157.834751] ==================================================================\n[ 157.834770] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in process_one_work / process_one_work\n\n[ 157.834793] write to 0xffff9934453f77a0 of 8 bytes by task 468 on cpu 29:\n[ 157.834804] process_one_work (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2606)\n[ 157.834815] worker_thread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/./include/linux/list.h:292 /home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2752)\n[ 157.834826] kthread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/kthread.c:389)\n[ 157.834834] ret_from_fork (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)\n[ 157.834845] ret_from_fork_asm (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)\n\n[ 157.834859] read to 0xffff9934453f77a0 of 8 bytes by task 214 on cpu 7:\n[ 157.834868] process_one_work (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2606)\n[ 157.834879] worker_thread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/./include/linux/list.h:292 /home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2752)\n[ 157.834890] kthread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/kthread.c:389)\n[ 157.834897] ret_from_fork (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)\n[ 157.834907] ret_from_fork_asm (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)\n\n[ 157.834920] value changed: 0x000000000000052a -\u003e 0x0000000000000532\n\n[ 157.834933] Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\n[ 157.834941] CPU: 7 PID: 214 Comm: kworker/u64:2 Tainted: G L 6.5.0-rc7-kcsan-00169-g81eaf55a60fc #4\n[ 157.834951] Hardware name: ASRock X670E PG Lightning/X670E PG Lightning, BIOS 1.21 04/26/2023\n[ 157.834958] Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_end_bio_work [btrfs]\n[ 157.835567] ==================================================================\n\nin code:\n\n trace_workqueue_execute_end(work, worker-\u003ecurrent_func);\n→ pwq-\u003estats[PWQ_STAT_COM\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"725e8ec59c56c65fb92e343c10a8842cd0d4f194","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce55024f28589b0012fa2c6b5748ec5a180b7fbe"},{"version":"725e8ec59c56c65fb92e343c10a8842cd0d4f194","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fe48ba7daefe75bbbefa2426deddc05f2d530d2d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.5.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","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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