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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53765" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-08T01:19:27.831Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:51:15.067Z" 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-2023-53765" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53765.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53765" title: "dm cache: free background tracker's queued work in btracker_destroy" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm cache: free background tracker's queued work in btracker_destroy\n\nOtherwise the kernel can BUG with:\n\n[ 2245.426978] =============================================================================\n[ 2245.435155] BUG bt_work (Tainted: G B W ): Objects remaining in bt_work on __kmem_cache_shutdown()\n[ 2245.445233] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n[ 2245.445233]\n[ 2245.454879] Slab 0x00000000b0ce2b30 objects=64 used=2 fp=0x000000000a3c6a4e flags=0x17ffffc0000200(slab|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)\n[ 2245.467300] CPU: 7 PID: 10805 Comm: lvm Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B W 6.0.0-rc2 #19\n[ 2245.476078] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7525/0590KW, BIOS 2.5.6 10/06/2021\n[ 2245.483646] Call Trace:\n[ 2245.486100] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 2245.488206] dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48\n[ 2245.491878] slab_err+0x95/0xcd\n[ 2245.495028] __kmem_cache_shutdown.cold+0x31/0x136\n[ 2245.499821] kmem_cache_destroy+0x49/0x130\n[ 2245.503928] btracker_destroy+0x12/0x20 [dm_cache]\n[ 2245.508728] smq_destroy+0x15/0x60 [dm_cache_smq]\n[ 2245.513435] dm_cache_policy_destroy+0x12/0x20 [dm_cache]\n[ 2245.518834] destroy+0xc0/0x110 [dm_cache]\n[ 2245.522933] dm_table_destroy+0x5c/0x120 [dm_mod]\n[ 2245.527649] __dm_destroy+0x10e/0x1c0 [dm_mod]\n[ 2245.532102] dev_remove+0x117/0x190 [dm_mod]\n[ 2245.536384] ctl_ioctl+0x1a2/0x290 [dm_mod]\n[ 2245.540579] dm_ctl_ioctl+0xa/0x20 [dm_mod]\n[ 2245.544773] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xc0\n[ 2245.548524] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x90\n[ 2245.552104] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x30\n[ 2245.556897] ? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x90\n[ 2245.560648] ? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x90\n[ 2245.564394] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n[ 2245.569447] RIP: 0033:0x7fe52583ec6b\n...\n[ 2245.646771] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 2245.651395] kmem_cache_destroy bt_work: Slab cache still has objects when called from btracker_destroy+0x12/0x20 [dm_cache]\n[ 2245.651408] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 10805 at mm/slab_common.c:478 kmem_cache_destroy+0x128/0x130\n\nFound using: lvm2-testsuite --only \"cache-single-split.sh\"\n\nBen bisected and found that commit 0495e337b703 (\"mm/slab_common:\nDeleting kobject in kmem_cache_destroy() without holding\nslab_mutex/cpu_hotplug_lock\") first exposed dm-cache's incomplete\ncleanup of its background tracker work objects." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"673a3af21d5e3ed769f3eaed0c888244290a3506"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed56ad5cacb7a3aeb611494d5d66e2399d2bfecc"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95ab80a8a0fef2ce0cc494a306dd283948066ce7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"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"}] ## 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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