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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2023-54246",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54246",
    "idYear": 2023,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-12-30T12:15:44.729Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T19:58:17.052Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_writer() schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() to _idle()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrcuscale: Move rcu_scale_writer() schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() to _idle()\n\nThe rcuscale.holdoff module parameter can be used to delay the start\nof rcu_scale_writer() kthread.  However, the hung-task timeout will\ntrigger when the timeout specified by rcuscale.holdoff is greater than\nhung_task_timeout_secs:\n\nrunqemu kvm nographic slirp qemuparams=\"-smp 4 -m 2048M\"\nbootparams=\"rcuscale.shutdown=0 rcuscale.holdoff=300\"\n\n[  247.071753] INFO: task rcu_scale_write:59 blocked for more than 122 seconds.\n[  247.072529]       Not tainted 6.4.0-rc1-00134-gb9ed6de8d4ff #7\n[  247.073400] \"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n[  247.074331] task:rcu_scale_write state:D stack:30144 pid:59    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000\n[  247.075346] Call Trace:\n[  247.075660]  <TASK>\n[  247.075965]  __schedule+0x635/0x1280\n[  247.076448]  ? __pfx___schedule+0x10/0x10\n[  247.076967]  ? schedule_timeout+0x2dc/0x4d0\n[  247.077471]  ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10\n[  247.078018]  ? enqueue_timer+0xe2/0x220\n[  247.078522]  schedule+0x84/0x120\n[  247.078957]  schedule_timeout+0x2e1/0x4d0\n[  247.079447]  ? __pfx_schedule_timeout+0x10/0x10\n[  247.080032]  ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10\n[  247.080591]  ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10\n[  247.081163]  ? __pfx_sched_set_fifo_low+0x10/0x10\n[  247.081760]  ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10\n[  247.082287]  rcu_scale_writer+0x6b1/0x7f0\n[  247.082773]  ? mark_held_locks+0x29/0xa0\n[  247.083252]  ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10\n[  247.083865]  ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10\n[  247.084412]  kthread+0x179/0x1c0\n[  247.084759]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[  247.085098]  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50\n[  247.085433]  </TASK>\n\nThis commit therefore replaces schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() with\nschedule_timeout_idle().",
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              "version": "0",
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              "versionType": "semver",
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              "version": "5.10.197",
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              "version": "5.15.133",
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