medium 4.7

CVE-2023-53329 json

workqueue: fix data race with the pwq->stats[] increment

published 2025-09-16 13 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-59932

cvss: 4.7; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 0%
public exploits: 0; none known

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KCSAN has discovered a data race in kernel/workqueue.c:2598:

[ 1863.554079] ================================================================== [ 1863.554118] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in process_one_work / process_one_work

[ 1863.554142] write to 0xffff963d99d79998 of 8 bytes by task 5394 on cpu 27: [ 1863.554154] process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:2598) [ 1863.554166] worker_thread (./include/linux/list.h:292 kernel/workqueue.c:2752) [ 1863.554177] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:389) [ 1863.554186] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145) [ 1863.554197] ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)

[ 1863.554213] read to 0xffff963d99d79998 of 8 bytes by task 5450 on cpu 12: [ 1863.554224] process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:2598) [ 1863.554235] worker_thread (./include/linux/list.h:292 kernel/workqueue.c:2752) [ 1863.554247] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:389) [ 1863.554255] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145) [ 1863.554266] ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)

[ 1863.554280] value changed: 0x0000000000001766 -> 0x000000000000176a

[ 1863.554295] Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: [ 1863.554303] CPU: 12 PID: 5450 Comm: kworker/u64:1 Tainted: G L 6.5.0-rc6+ #44 [ 1863.554314] Hardware name: ASRock X670E PG Lightning/X670E PG Lightning, BIOS 1.21 04/26/2023 [ 1863.554322] Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_end_bio_work [btrfs] [ 1863.554941] ==================================================================

lockdep_invariant_state(true); → pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_STARTED]++; trace_workqueue_execute_start(work); worker->current_func(work);

Moving pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_STARTED]++; before the line

raw_spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);

resolves the data race without performance penalty.

KCSAN detected at least one additional data race:

[ 157.834751] ================================================================== [ 157.834770] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in process_one_work / process_one_work

[ 157.834793] write to 0xffff9934453f77a0 of 8 bytes by task 468 on cpu 29: [ 157.834804] process_one_work (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2606) [ 157.834815] worker_thread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/./include/linux/list.h:292 /home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2752) [ 157.834826] kthread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/kthread.c:389) [ 157.834834] ret_from_fork (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145) [ 157.834845] ret_from_fork_asm (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)

[ 157.834859] read to 0xffff9934453f77a0 of 8 bytes by task 214 on cpu 7: [ 157.834868] process_one_work (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2606) [ 157.834879] worker_thread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/./include/linux/list.h:292 /home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2752) [ 157.834890] kthread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/kthread.c:389) [ 157.834897] ret_from_fork (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145) [ 157.834907] ret_from_fork_asm (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)

[ 157.834920] value changed: 0x000000000000052a -> 0x0000000000000532

[ 157.834933] Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: [ 157.834941] CPU: 7 PID: 214 Comm: kworker/u64:2 Tainted: G L 6.5.0-rc7-kcsan-00169-g81eaf55a60fc #4 [ 157.834951] Hardware name: ASRock X670E PG Lightning/X670E PG Lightning, BIOS 1.21 04/26/2023 [ 157.834958] Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_end_bio_work [btrfs] [ 157.835567] ==================================================================

in code:

trace_workqueue_execute_end(work, worker->current_func); → pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_COM ---truncated---

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1 links 2

Linux Linux 6.5.3, 6.6

linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.5.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53329

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-53329 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 7.0

kernel: workqueue: fix data race with the pwq->stats[] increment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 9 mo ago (2026-01-14)

Exploit prediction

0.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 0% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	4.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	4.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA	3.1	4.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-53329
NVD CVE-2023-53329

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Summary