CVE-2023-53509 qed: allow sleep in qed_mcp_trace_dump()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: qed: allow sleep in qedmcptracedump By default, qedmcpcmdandunion delays 10us at a time in a loop that can run 500K times, so calls to qedmcpnvmrdcmd may block the current thread for over 5s. We observed thread scheduling delays...

PT-2023-33475 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux Kernel versions prior to v6.0.19 Description: The issue allows sleep in qed mcp trace dump. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. It was introduced in version v4.9 and fixed in Linux Kernel version v6.0.19...