CVE-2023-53287
Linux Kernel vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-53287 affects the Linux kernel and involves a vulnerability in the USB CDNS3 driver. The issue was discovered when the device could be scheduled during the resume process, causing atomic operation violations. The vulnerability was identified in version 6.1.20 of the Linux kernel (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability occurs in the USB CDNS3 driver where pmruntimesetactive is called within a spin lock section. Since pmruntimesetactive will resume suppliers, this operation cannot appear in atomic operations. The issue manifests as a kernel warning: 'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context' at drivers/base/power/runtime.c:1163, with specific indicators including inatomic():1, irqsdisabled():0, and preempt_count:1 (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability affects the kernel's power management functionality for USB devices using the CDNS3 driver. When triggered, it can cause kernel warnings and potential system stability issues, particularly during device resume operations (Debian Tracker).

Mitigation and workarounds

The issue has been fixed in several Linux kernel versions. Debian has addressed this in version 6.1.55-1 for bookworm and 6.5.6-1 for unstable releases. Various other distributions have also released patches to address this vulnerability (Debian Tracker).

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