Vulnerability · Published Feb 29, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2023-52498PM: sleep: Fix possible deadlocks in core system-wide PM code

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 85.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM: sleep: Fix possible deadlocks in core system-wide PM code It is reported that in low-memory situations the system-wide resume core code deadlocks, because async_schedule_dev() executes its argument function synchronously if it cannot allocate memory (and not only in that case) and that function attempts to acquire a mutex that is already held. Executing the argument function synchronously from within dpm_async_fn() may also be problematic for ordering reasons (it may cause a consumer device's resume callback to be invoked before a requisite supplier device's one, for example). Address this by changing the code in question to use async_schedule_dev_nocall() for scheduling the asynchronous execution of device suspend and resume functions and to directly run them synchronously if async_schedule_dev_nocall() returns false.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.76-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52498
Debian:13linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52498
Debian:14linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-106.116UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-106.116USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1061.67USN-6766-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1061.67UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1063.72UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1063.72USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1022.23~22.04.1USN-6819-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1022.23~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1063.72.1USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1063.72.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1059.67UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1059.67USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1022.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1022.24~22.04.1USN-6818-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1058.63UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1058.63USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1044.51UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1044.51USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41~22.04.2USN-6818-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1054.57USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1054.57UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1057.63UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1057.63USN-6795-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1058.63USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1058.63UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-106.116UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-106.116USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41.1~22.04.1USN-6818-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1054.55USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1054.55UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1021.22USN-6818-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1021.22UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1026.26UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1024.25UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1024.25USN-6819-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1059.65USN-6766-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1059.65UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1024.24~22.04.1USN-6819-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1024.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1054.57USN-6766-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1054.57UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.56.5.0-40.40.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1015.16~22.04.1USN-6819-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1015.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1030.34UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52498

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 0552e05fdfea191a2cf3a0abd33574b5ef9ca818 – before f46eb832389f162ad13cb780d0b8cde93641990d0552e05fdfea191a2cf3a0abd33574b5ef9ca818 – before a1d62c775b07213c73f81ae842424c74dd14b5f00552e05fdfea191a2cf3a0abd33574b5ef9ca818 – before e1c9d32c98309ae764893a481552d3f99d46cb340552e05fdfea191a2cf3a0abd33574b5ef9ca818 – before e681e29d1f59a04ef773296e4bebb17b1b79f8fe0552e05fdfea191a2cf3a0abd33574b5ef9ca818 – before 9bd3dce27b01c51295b60e1433e1dadfb16649f70552e05fdfea191a2cf3a0abd33574b5ef9ca818 – before 7839d0078e0d5e6cc2fa0b0dfbee71de74f1e5575d56260c5e9fdbbba59655f63622f6159bf0e59576d587bd579a08ddcd51274c6d9fff4e885e184d
Linux Linux 5.6

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