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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53783"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:00:38.679Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:51:26.633Z"
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-2023-53783"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53783.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53783"
title: "blk-iocost: fix divide by 0 error in calc_lcoefs()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-iocost: fix divide by 0 error in calc_lcoefs()\n\necho max of u64 to cost.model can cause divide by 0 error.\n\n  # echo 8:0 rbps=18446744073709551615 \u003e /sys/fs/cgroup/io.cost.model\n\n  divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\n  RIP: 0010:calc_lcoefs+0x4c/0xc0\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   ioc_refresh_params+0x2b3/0x4f0\n   ioc_cost_model_write+0x3cb/0x4c0\n   ? _copy_from_iter+0x6d/0x6c0\n   ? kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xfc/0x270\n   cgroup_file_write+0xa0/0x200\n   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x17d/0x270\n   vfs_write+0x414/0x620\n   ksys_write+0x73/0x160\n   __x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30\n   do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\ncalc_lcoefs() uses the input value of cost.model in DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL,\noverflow would happen if bps plus IOC_PAGE_SIZE is greater than\nULLONG_MAX, it can cause divide by 0 error.\n\nFix the problem by setting basecost"
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