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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53668" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:21:26.164Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:49:36.478Z" 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-2023-53668" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53668.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53668" title: "ring-buffer: Fix deadloop issue on reading trace_pipe" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nring-buffer: Fix deadloop issue on reading trace_pipe\n\nSoft lockup occurs when reading file 'trace_pipe':\n\n watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 22s! [cat:4488]\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_empty_cpu+0xed/0x170\n RSP: 0018:ffff88810dd6fc48 EFLAGS: 00000246\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: ffffffff93d1aaeb\n RDX: ffff88810a280040 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88811164b218\n RBP: ffff88811164b218 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88815156600f\n R10: ffffed102a2acc01 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000051651901\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888115e49500 R15: 0000000000000000\n [...]\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007f8d853c2000 CR3: 000000010dcd8000 CR4: 00000000000006e0\n DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n Call Trace:\n __find_next_entry+0x1a8/0x4b0\n ? peek_next_entry+0x250/0x250\n ? down_write+0xa5/0x120\n ? down_write_killable+0x130/0x130\n trace_find_next_entry_inc+0x3b/0x1d0\n tracing_read_pipe+0x423/0xae0\n ? tracing_splice_read_pipe+0xcb0/0xcb0\n vfs_read+0x16b/0x490\n ksys_read+0x105/0x210\n ? __ia32_sys_pwrite64+0x200/0x200\n ? switch_fpu_return+0x108/0x220\n do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6\n\nThrough the vmcore, I found it's because in tracing_read_pipe(),\nring_buffer_empty_cpu() found some buffer is not empty but then it\ncannot read anything due to \"rb_num_of_entries() == 0\" always true,\nThen it infinitely loop the procedure due to user buffer not been\nfilled, see following code path:\n\n tracing_read_pipe() {\n ... ...\n waitagain:\n tracing_wait_pipe() // 1. find non-empty buffer here\n trace_find_next_entry_inc() // 2. loop here try to find an entry\n __find_next_entry()\n ring_buffer_empty_cpu(); // 3. find non-empty buffer\n peek_next_entry() // 4. but peek always return NULL\n ring_buffer_peek()\n rb_buffer_peek()\n rb_get_reader_page()\n // 5. because rb_num_of_entries() == 0 always true here\n // then return NULL\n // 6. user buffer not been filled so goto 'waitgain'\n // and eventually leads to an deadloop in kernel!!!\n }\n\nBy some analyzing, I found that when resetting ringbuffer, the 'entries'\nof its pages are not all cleared (see rb_reset_cpu()). Then when reducing\nthe ringbuffer, and if some reduced pages exist dirty 'entries' data, they\nwill be added into 'cpu_buffer-\u003eoverrun' (see rb_remove_pages()), which\ncause wrong 'overrun' count and eventually cause the deadloop issue.\n\nTo fix it, we need to clear every pages in rb_reset_cpu()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a5fb833172eca69136e9ee1ada778e404086ab8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a29dae5786d263016a9aceb1e56bf3fd4cc6fa0"},{"version":"a5fb833172eca69136e9ee1ada778e404086ab8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a55e8a3596048c2f7b574049aeb1885b5abba1cc"},{"version":"a5fb833172eca69136e9ee1ada778e404086ab8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e84829522fc72bb43556b31575731de0440ac0dd"},{"version":"a5fb833172eca69136e9ee1ada778e404086ab8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e68f1f3a20fe9b6bde018e353269fbfa289609c"},{"version":"a5fb833172eca69136e9ee1ada778e404086ab8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb14a93bccc92766b1d9302c6bcbea17d4bce306"},{"version":"a5fb833172eca69136e9ee1ada778e404086ab8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b0b63fdac6b70a45614e7d4b30e5bbb93deb007"},{"version":"a5fb833172eca69136e9ee1ada778e404086ab8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27bdd93e44cc28dd9b94893fae146b83d4f5b31e"},{"version":"a5fb833172eca69136e9ee1ada778e404086ab8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e42907f3a7b4ce3a2d1757f6d78336984daf8f5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.6"},{"version":"4.14.322","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.291","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.251","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","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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