Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2023-53815

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete() itimer_delete() has a retry loop when the timer is concurrently expired. On non-RT kernels this just spin-waits unti…

EPSS: 0.002 (5.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions ec8f954a40da8cd3d159713b608e901f0cd909a9, 5.4, 0

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