{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-03-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration",
    "id" : "2355488",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355488"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nmm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration\nlru_gen_migrate_mm() assumes lru_gen_add_mm() runs prior to itself.  This\nisn't true for the following scenario:\nCPU 1                         CPU 2\nclone()\ncgroup_can_fork()\ncgroup_procs_write()\ncgroup_post_fork()\ntask_lock()\nlru_gen_migrate_mm()\ntask_unlock()\ntask_lock()\nlru_gen_add_mm()\ntask_unlock()\nAnd when the above happens, kernel crashes because of linked list\ncorruption (mm_struct->lru_gen.list)." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2394",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2394",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52940\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52940\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032722-CVE-2023-52940-2e53@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-52940",
  "csaw" : false
}