CVE-2023-52672: pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage Commit c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") a regression was introduced that would lock up resized pipes under certain conditions. See the reproducer in [1]. The commit resizing the pipe ring size was moved to a different function, doing that moved the wakeup for pipe->wr_wait before actually raising pipe->max_usage. If a pipe was full before the resize occured it would result in the wakeup never actually triggering pipe_write. Set @max_usage and @nr_accounted before waking writers if this isn't a watch queue. [Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>: rewrite to account for watch queues]

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0
Linux kernel: from 5.8 before 5.10.210; from 5.11 before 5.15.149; from 5.16 before 6.1.76; from 6.2 before 6.6.15; from 6.7 before 6.7.3 — fixed in 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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