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CVE-2023-53815

UNKNOWN · CVSS N/A EPSS 0.17%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2025-12-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This vulnerability has an unknown severity rating. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2023-53815
Severity
UNKNOWN
CVSS
N/A
EPSS
0.17%
Linux

Original NVD Description

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.