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CVE-2023-2269
A denial of service problem was found, due to a possible recursive locking scenario, resulting in a deadlock in table_clear in…
- 4.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.22%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 87% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A denial of service problem was found, due to a possible recursive locking scenario, resulting in a deadlock in table_clear in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Linux Kernel Device Mapper-Multipathing sub-component.
Timeline
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.22% · top 87% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Affected products
Kernel
- affected Linux kernel version 6.2.0
References
References9
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZD1xyZxb3rHot8PV%40redhat.com/t/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-00393126a0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-26325e5399 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-dfd4a6e8f2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- DSA-5448 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230727 [SECURITY] [DLA 3508-1] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- DSA-5480 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0004/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20231019 [SECURITY] [DLA 3623-1] linux-5.10 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-33775 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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