Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-71915.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-71915
Upstream
Published
2025-09-18T16:15:45Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:22:06.399622Z
Summary
CVE-2023-53421 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1
Details

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

blk-cgroup: Reinit blkgiostatset after clearing in blkcgresetstats()

When blkgalloc() is called to allocate a blkcggq structure with the associated blkgiostatset's, there are 2 fields within blkgiostatset that requires proper initialization - blkg & sync. The former field was introduced by commit 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcgrstatflush()") while the later one was introduced by commit f73316482977 ("blk-cgroup: reimplement basic IO stats using cgroup rstat").

Unfortunately those fields in the blkgiostatset's are not properly re-initialized when they are cleared in v1's blkcgresetstats(). This can lead to a kernel panic due to NULL pointer access of the blkg pointer. The missing initialization of sync is less problematic and can be a problem in a debug kernel due to missing lockdep initialization.

Fix these problems by re-initializing them after memory clearing.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
5.15.200.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-71915.json"