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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53671" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:21:28.307Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:49:39.852Z" 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-2023-53671" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53671.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53671" title: "srcu: Delegate work to the boot cpu if using SRCU_SIZE_SMALL" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsrcu: Delegate work to the boot cpu if using SRCU_SIZE_SMALL\n\nCommit 994f706872e6 (\"srcu: Make Tree SRCU able to operate without\nsnp_node array\") assumes that cpu 0 is always online. However, there\nreally are situations when some other CPU is the boot CPU, for example,\nwhen booting a kdump kernel with the maxcpus=1 boot parameter.\n\nOn PowerPC, the kdump kernel can hang as follows:\n...\n[ 1.740036] systemd[1]: Hostname set to \u003cxyz.com\u003e\n[ 243.686240] INFO: task systemd:1 blocked for more than 122 seconds.\n[ 243.686264] Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #1\n[ 243.686272] \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n[ 243.686281] task:systemd state:D stack:0 pid:1 ppid:0 flags:0x00042000\n[ 243.686296] Call Trace:\n[ 243.686301] [c000000016657640] [c000000016657670] 0xc000000016657670 (unreliable)\n[ 243.686317] [c000000016657830] [c00000001001dec0] __switch_to+0x130/0x220\n[ 243.686333] [c000000016657890] [c000000010f607b8] __schedule+0x1f8/0x580\n[ 243.686347] [c000000016657940] [c000000010f60bb4] schedule+0x74/0x140\n[ 243.686361] [c0000000166579b0] [c000000010f699b8] schedule_timeout+0x168/0x1c0\n[ 243.686374] [c000000016657a80] [c000000010f61de8] __wait_for_common+0x148/0x360\n[ 243.686387] [c000000016657b20] [c000000010176bb0] __flush_work.isra.0+0x1c0/0x3d0\n[ 243.686401] [c000000016657bb0] [c0000000105f2768] fsnotify_wait_marks_destroyed+0x28/0x40\n[ 243.686415] [c000000016657bd0] [c0000000105f21b8] fsnotify_destroy_group+0x68/0x160\n[ 243.686428] [c000000016657c40] [c0000000105f6500] inotify_release+0x30/0xa0\n[ 243.686440] [c000000016657cb0] [c0000000105751a8] __fput+0xc8/0x350\n[ 243.686452] [c000000016657d00] [c00000001017d524] task_work_run+0xe4/0x170\n[ 243.686464] [c000000016657d50] [c000000010020e94] do_notify_resume+0x134/0x140\n[ 243.686478] [c000000016657d80] [c00000001002eb18] interrupt_exit_user_prepare_main+0x198/0x270\n[ 243.686493] [c000000016657de0] [c00000001002ec60] syscall_exit_prepare+0x70/0x180\n[ 243.686505] [c000000016657e10] [c00000001000bf7c] system_call_vectored_common+0xfc/0x280\n[ 243.686520] --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fffa47d5ba4\n[ 243.686528] NIP: 00007fffa47d5ba4 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000\n[ 243.686538] REGS: c000000016657e80 TRAP: 3000 Not tainted (6.1.0-rc1)\n[ 243.686548] MSR: 800000000000d033 \u003cSF,EE,PR,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE\u003e CR: 42044440 XER: 00000000\n[ 243.686572] IRQMASK: 0\n[ 243.686572] GPR00: 0000000000000006 00007ffffa606710 00007fffa48e7200 0000000000000000\n[ 243.686572] GPR04: 0000000000000002 000000000000000a 0000000000000000 0000000000000001\n[ 243.686572] GPR08: 000001000c172dd0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000\n[ 243.686572] GPR12: 0000000000000000 00007fffa4ff4bc0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000\n[ 243.686572] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000\n[ 243.686572] GPR20: 0000000132dfdc50 000000000000000e 0000000000189375 0000000000000000\n[ 243.686572] GPR24: 00007ffffa606ae0 0000000000000005 000001000c185490 000001000c172570\n[ 243.686572] GPR28: 000001000c172990 000001000c184850 000001000c172e00 00007fffa4fedd98\n[ 243.686683] NIP [00007fffa47d5ba4] 0x7fffa47d5ba4\n[ 243.686691] LR [0000000000000000] 0x0\n[ 243.686698] --- interrupt: 3000\n[ 243.686708] INFO: task kworker/u16:1:24 blocked for more than 122 seconds.\n[ 243.686717] Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #1\n[ 243.686724] \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n[ 243.686733] task:kworker/u16:1 state:D stack:0 pid:24 ppid:2 flags:0x00000800\n[ 243.686747] Workqueue: events_unbound fsnotify_mark_destroy_workfn\n[ 243.686758] Call Trace:\n[ 243.686762] [c0000000166736e0] [c00000004fd91000] 0xc00000004fd91000 (unreliable)\n[ 243.686775] [c0000000166738d0] [c00000001001dec0] __switch_to+0x130/0x220\n[ 243.686788] [c000000016673930] [c000000010f607b8] __schedule+0x1f8/0x\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"994f706872e6ce080506bd795ecf783d5b617de6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c4d26dad76eadaa45a24543e311e9ce5d09f04e"},{"version":"994f706872e6ce080506bd795ecf783d5b617de6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7c0bc03fa44942fe0fdc5ac52cda6e11529c0ea"},{"version":"994f706872e6ce080506bd795ecf783d5b617de6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f24626d6dd844bfc6d1f492d214d29c86d02550"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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