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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) 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"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54246" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54246.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54246" 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 \u003e /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] \u003cTASK\u003e\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] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThis commit therefore replaces schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() with\nschedule_timeout_idle()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"df37e66bfdbb57e8cae7dbf39a0c66b1b8701338","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55887adc76e19aec9763186e2c1d0a3481d20e96"},{"version":"df37e66bfdbb57e8cae7dbf39a0c66b1b8701338","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f03fba096bfded90e0d71eba8839a46922164d1"},{"version":"df37e66bfdbb57e8cae7dbf39a0c66b1b8701338","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83ed0cdb6ae0383dd14b02375c353773836884ed"},{"version":"df37e66bfdbb57e8cae7dbf39a0c66b1b8701338","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9416dccb31fdb190d25d57e97674f232651f6560"},{"version":"df37e66bfdbb57e8cae7dbf39a0c66b1b8701338","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e60c122a1614b4f65b29a7bef9d83b9fd30e937a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"version":"5.10.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.133","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","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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