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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53777"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:00:32.947Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:51:20.826Z"
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-2023-53777"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53777.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53777"
title: "erofs: kill hooked chains to avoid loops on deduplicated compressed images"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nerofs: kill hooked chains to avoid loops on deduplicated compressed images\n\nAfter heavily stressing EROFS with several images which include a\nhand-crafted image of repeated patterns for more than 46 days, I found\ntwo chains could be linked with each other almost simultaneously and\nform a loop so that the entire loop won't be submitted.  As a\nconsequence, the corresponding file pages will remain locked forever.\n\nIt can be _only_ observed on data-deduplicated compressed images.\nFor example, consider two chains with five pclusters in total:\n\tChain 1:  2-\u003e3-\u003e4-\u003e5    -- The tail pcluster is 5;\n        Chain 2:  5-\u003e1-\u003e2       -- The tail pcluster is 2.\n\nChain 2 could link to Chain 1 with pcluster 5; and Chain 1 could link\nto Chain 2 at the same time with pcluster 2.\n\nSince hooked chains are all linked locklessly now, I have no idea how\nto simply avoid the race.  Instead, let's avoid hooked chains completely\nuntil I could work out a proper way to fix this and end users finally\ntell us that it's needed to add it back.\n\nActually, this optimization can be found with multi-threaded workloads\n(especially even more often on deduplicated compressed images), yet I'm\nnot sure about the overall system impacts of not having this compared\nwith implementation complexity."
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