CVE-2023-54159 json
usb: mtu3: fix kernel panic at qmu transfer done irq handler
published 2025-12-24 10 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-60286
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: mtu3: fix kernel panic at qmu transfer done irq handler
When handle qmu transfer irq, it will unlock @mtu->lock before give back request, if another thread handle disconnect event at the same time, and try to disable ep, it may lock @mtu->lock and free qmu ring, then qmu irq hanlder may get a NULL gpd, avoid the KE by checking gpd's value before handling it.
e.g. qmu done irq on cpu0 thread running on cpu1
qmu_done_tx() handle gpd [0] mtu3_requ_complete() mtu3_gadget_ep_disable() unlock @mtu->lock give back request lock @mtu->lock mtu3_ep_disable() mtu3_gpd_ring_free() unlock @mtu->lock lock @mtu->lock get next gpd [1]
[1]: goto [0] to handle next gpd, and next gpd may be NULL.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.4.243, 5.10.180, 5.15.111, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2, 6.4
- linux Debian 12 6.1.37-1
- linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.3.7-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54159
- linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-162.179
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-79.86
- linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1109.118
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1042.47
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1112.121
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1039.47
- linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1039.44
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1056.61
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54159
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- kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
- kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
- kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/26ca30516b2c49dd04c134cbdf122311c538df98 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/012936502a9cb7b0604e85bb961eb15e2bb40dd9 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee53a7a88027cea765c68f3b00a50b8f58d6f786 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f26273428657ef4ca74740e578ae45a3be492f6f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b636aff94a67be46582d4321d11743f1a10cc2c1 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a7d4959560a2ee493ef222e3b63d359365f41ec commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d28f4091ea7ec3510fd6a3c6d433234e7a2bef14 commit
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-2023-54159 updated
kernel: usb: mtu3: fix kernel panic at qmu transfer done irq handler
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more 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 kernelnot affected: vulnerable code not present
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Exploit prediction
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/26ca30516b2c49dd04c134cbdf122311c538df98
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/012936502a9cb7b0604e85bb961eb15e2bb40dd9
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ee53a7a88027cea765c68f3b00a50b8f58d6f786
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/f26273428657ef4ca74740e578ae45a3be492f6f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b636aff94a67be46582d4321d11743f1a10cc2c1
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/3a7d4959560a2ee493ef222e3b63d359365f41ec
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d28f4091ea7ec3510fd6a3c6d433234e7a2bef14
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2023-54159
- NVD CVE-2023-54159
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