{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-12-09T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: md/raid5-cache: fix a deadlock in r5l_exit_log()",
    "id" : "2420331",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420331"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.7",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-833",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nmd/raid5-cache: fix a deadlock in r5l_exit_log()\nCommit b13015af94cf (\"md/raid5-cache: Clear conf->log after finishing\nwork\") introduce a new problem:\n// caller hold reconfig_mutex\nr5l_exit_log\nflush_work(&log->disable_writeback_work)\nr5c_disable_writeback_async\nwait_event\n/*\n* conf->log is not NULL, and mddev_trylock()\n* will fail, wait_event() can never pass.\n*/\nconf->log = NULL\nFix this problem by setting 'config->log' to NULL before wake_up() as it\nused to be, so that wait_event() from r5c_disable_writeback_async() can\nexist. In the meantime, move forward md_unregister_thread() so that\nnull-ptr-deref this commit fixed can still be fixed.", "A deadlock vulnerability was found in the md RAID5 cache (r5l) subsystem in the Linux kernel. In r5l_exit_log(), flush_work() is called while holding reconfig_mutex, which waits for disable_writeback_work to complete. However, r5c_disable_writeback_async() calls wait_event() which requires conf->log to be NULL, but that only happens after flush_work() returns, creating a deadlock." ],
  "statement" : "This is a deadlock vulnerability in the RAID5 journaling cache subsystem that can cause system hangs when stopping RAID5 arrays with caching enabled. The impact is limited to systems using RAID5 with write-back caching.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-05-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:3138",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.el8_10"
  }, {
    "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" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "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-2023-53848\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53848\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120900-CVE-2023-53848-8cd8@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-53848",
  "csaw" : false
}