🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53291
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu/rcuscale: Stop kfree_scale_thread thread(s) after unloading rcuscale Running the 'kfree_rcu_test' test case [1] results in a splat [2]. The root cause is the kfree_scale_thread thread(s) continue running after unloading the rcuscale module. This commit fixes that isue by invoking kfree_scale_cleanup() from rcu_scale_cleanup() when removing the rcuscale module. [1] modprobe rcuscale kfree_rcu_test=1 // After some time rmmod rcuscale rmmod torture [2] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc0601a87 #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page PGD 11de4f067 P4D 11de4f067 PUD 11de51067 PMD 112f4d067 PTE 0 Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 1798 Comm: kfree_scale_thr Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-rcu+ #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:0xffffffffc0601a87 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffc0601a5d. RSP: 0018:ffffb25bc2e57e18 EFLAGS: 00010297 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffc061f0b6 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff962fd0de RDI: ffffffff962fd0de RBP: ffffb25bc2e57ea8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000000a R15: 00000000001c1dbe FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff921fa2200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffffffc0601a5d CR3: 000000011de4c006 CR4: 0000000000370ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: ? kvfree_call_rcu+0xf0/0x3a0 ? kthread+0xf3/0x120 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ? ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Modules linked in: rfkill sunrpc ... [last unloaded: torture] CR2: ffffffffc0601a87 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-09-16
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux 5.15.0-86.96
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws 5.15.0-1047.52
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1047.52~20.04.1
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-azure 5.15.0-1049.56
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1049.56~20.04.1
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.11
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-bluefield
linux-fips
linux-gcp 5.15.0-1044.52
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1044.52~20.04.1
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.11
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gke 5.15.0-1044.49
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1030.35
linux-gkeop-5.15
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-86.96~20.04.1
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.11
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm 5.15.0-1040.43
linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1040.43~20.04.1
linux-intel
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1040.42
linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1043.49
linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1043.49~20.04.1
linux-kvm 5.15.0-1044.49
linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-86.95
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-86.95~20.04.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1037.37
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-6.5
linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1018.18
linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1018.18~20.04.1
linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1005.5
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.11
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oem-6.8
linux-oracle 5.15.0-1045.51
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1045.51~20.04.1
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-raspi 5.15.0-1040.43
linux-raspi-realtime
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime
linux-riscv
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1043.47~20.04.1
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5
linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1025.29

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