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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53624"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:19:29.545Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:48:45.406Z"
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-2023-53624"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53624.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53624"
title: "net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of \"credit\""
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of \"credit\"\n\nif sch_fq is configured with \"initial quantum\" having values greater than\nINT_MAX, the first assignment of \"credit\" does signed integer overflow to\na very negative value.\nIn this situation, the syzkaller script provided by Cristoph triggers the\nCPU soft-lockup warning even with few sockets. It's not an infinite loop,\nbut \"credit\" wasn't probably meant to be minus 2Gb for each new flow.\nCapping \"initial quantum\" to INT_MAX proved to fix the issue.\n\nv2: validation of \"initial quantum\" is done in fq_policy, instead of open\n    coding in fq_change() _ suggested by Jakub Kicinski"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b8a05e3801661a0438fcd0cdef181030d966a5a"},{"version":"afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0b43125ec892aeb1b03e5df5aab595097da225a"},{"version":"afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fbefeab88c6e79753a25099d455d3d59d2946b4"},{"version":"afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"85f24cb2f10b2b0f2882e5786a09b4790bb3a0ad"},{"version":"afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2322462d6f9ad4874f4e3c63df3b5cc00cb1acbd"},{"version":"afe4fd062416b158a8a8538b23adc1930a9b88dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7041101ff6c3073fd8f2e99920f535b111c929cb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"},{"version":"5.10.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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