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DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53815

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53815 PUBLISHED

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete() itimer_delete() has a retry loop when the timer is concurrently expired. On non-RT kernels this just spin-waits until the timer callback has completed, except for posix CPU timers which have HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK enabled. In that case and on RT kernels the existing task could live lock when preempting the task which does the timer delivery. Replace spin_unlock() with an invocation of timer_wait_running() to handle it the same way as the other retry loops in the posix timer code.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13linux0, 0, 0
Debian:14linux0, 0, 0
Debian:11linux0, 5.10.149-1, 5.10.158-2
Debian:12linux6.1.38-2, 6.1.38-3, 6.1.38-4

Timeline

  • Dec 9, 2025 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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