CVE-2023-52707
CVE-2023-52707CVE-2023-52707
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/psi: Fix use-after-free in ep_remove_wait_queue()
If a non-root cgroup gets removed when there is a thread that registered
trigger and is polling on a pressure file within the cgroup, the polling
waitqueue gets freed in the following path:
do_rmdir
cgroup_rmdir
kernfs_drain_open_files
cgroup_file_release
cgroup_pressure_release
psi_trigger_destroy
However, the polling thread still has a reference to the pressure file and
will access the freed waitqueue when the file is closed or upon exit:
fput
ep_eventpoll_release
ep_free
ep_remove_wait_queue
remove_wait_queue
This results in use-after-free as pasted below.
The fundamental problem here is that cgroup_file_release() (and
consequently waitqueue's lifetime) is not tied to the file's real lifetime.
Using wake_up_pollfree() here might be less than ideal, but it is in line
with the comment at commit 4
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |