In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous If a panic is triggered by a hrtimer interrupt all online cpus will be notified and set offline. But as highlighted by commit 19dbdcb8039c ("smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context") this call should not be made synchronous with disabled interrupts: softdog: Initiating panic Kernel panic - not syncing: Software Watchdog Timer expired WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:753 smp_call_function_many_cond unwind_backtrace: show_stack dump_stack_lvl __warn warn_slowpath_fmt smp_call_function_many_cond smp_call_function crash_smp_send_stop.part.0 machine_crash_shutdown __crash_kexec panic softdog_fire __hrtimer_run_queues hrtimer_interrupt Make the smp call for machine_crash_nonpanic_core() asynchronous.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Linux
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References
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46870eea5496ff277e86187a49ac5a667cfe60c4 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5590ba4560eefbd19a4ed07c7e7c8e4c51ffc628 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8922ba71c969d2a0c01a94372a71477d879470de cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee378f45a70d09b51373ba495d30d99ef12219c1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025102213-CVE-2023-53712-b88e@gregkh/T cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53712 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53712 cve-icon
History

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

threat_severity

Low

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous If a panic is triggered by a hrtimer interrupt all online cpus will be notified and set offline. But as highlighted by commit 19dbdcb8039c ("smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context") this call should not be made synchronous with disabled interrupts: softdog: Initiating panic Kernel panic - not syncing: Software Watchdog Timer expired WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:753 smp_call_function_many_cond unwind_backtrace: show_stack dump_stack_lvl __warn warn_slowpath_fmt smp_call_function_many_cond smp_call_function crash_smp_send_stop.part.0 machine_crash_shutdown __crash_kexec panic softdog_fire __hrtimer_run_queues hrtimer_interrupt Make the smp call for machine_crash_nonpanic_core() asynchronous.
Title ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous
References
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2025-10-22T13:23:47.100Z

Updated: 2025-10-22T13:23:47.100Z

Reserved: 2025-10-22T13:21:37.346Z

Link: CVE-2023-53712

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-22T14:15:45.817

Modified: 2025-10-22T21:12:48.953

Link: CVE-2023-53712

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-10-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-53712 - Bugzilla