CVE-2023-53615 (GCVE-0-2023-53615)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-04 15:44
Modified
2026-08-05 09:15
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix deletion race condition System crash when using debug kernel due to link list corruption. The cause of the link list corruption is due to session deletion was allowed to queue up twice. Here's the internal trace that show the same port was allowed to double queue for deletion on different cpu. 20808683956 015 qla2xxx [0000:13:00.1]-e801:4: Scheduling sess ffff93ebf9306800 for deletion 50:06:0e:80:12:48:ff:50 fc4_type 1 20808683957 027 qla2xxx [0000:13:00.1]-e801:4: Scheduling sess ffff93ebf9306800 for deletion 50:06:0e:80:12:48:ff:50 fc4_type 1 Move the clearing/setting of deleted flag lock.
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Linux Linux Version: 726b85487067d7f5b23495bc33c484b8517c4074
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Version: 726b85487067d7f5b23495bc33c484b8517c4074
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Version: 726b85487067d7f5b23495bc33c484b8517c4074
Version: 726b85487067d7f5b23495bc33c484b8517c4074
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