CVE-2023-53461

io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:45 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit WHen the ring exits, cleanup is done and the final cancelation and waiting on completions is done by io_ring_exit_work. That function is invoked by kworker, which doesn't take any signals. Because of that, it doesn't really matter if we wait for completions in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE or TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. However, it does matter to the hung task detection checker! Normally we expect cancelations and completions to happen rather quickly. Some test cases, however, will exit the ring and park the owning task stopped (eg via SIGSTOP). If the owning task needs to run task_work to complete requests, then io_ring_exit_work won't make any progress until the task is runnable again. Hence io_ring_exit_work can trigger the hung task detection, which is particularly problematic if panic-on-hung-task is enabled. As the ring exit doesn't take signals to begin with, have it wait interruptibly rather than uninterruptibly. io_uring has a separate stuck-exit warning that triggers independently anyway, so we're not really missing anything by making this switch.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.1 ≤ v < 5.10.1885.1 ≤ v < 5.15.1215.1 ≤ v < 6.1.395.1 ≤ v < 6.4.45.1 ≤ v < 6.55.11 ≤ v < 5.15.1215.16 ≤ v < 6.1.396.2 ≤ v < 6.4.42b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e5.1
Vendor states this is fixed in 28e649dc9947e6525c95e32aa9a8e147925e3f56 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4826c59453b3b4677d6bf72814e7ababdea86949 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 58e80cb68b057e974768792c34708c6957810486 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8e29835366138389bfad3b31ea06960d0a77bf77 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b50d6e06cca7b67a3d73ca660dda27662b76e6ea (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.121 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.39 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
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