In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: fix zswap writeback race condition The zswap writeback mechanism can cause a race condition resulting in memory corruption, where a swapped out page gets swapped in with data that was written to a different page. The race unfolds like this: 1. a page with data A and swap offset X is stored in zswap 2. page A is removed off the LRU by zpool driver for writeback in zswap-shrink work, data for A is mapped by zpool driver 3. user space program faults and invalidates page entry A, offset X is considered free 4. kswapd stores page B at offset X in zswap (zswap could also be full, if so, page B would then be IOed to X, then skip step 5.) 5. entry A is replaced by B in tree->rbroot, this doesn't affect the local reference held by zswap-shrink work 6. zswap-shrink work writes back A at X, and frees zswap entry A 7. swapin of slot X brings A in memory instead of B The fix: Once the swap page cache has been allocated (case ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NEW), zswap-shrink work just checks that the local zswap_entry reference is still the same as the one in the tree. If it's not the same it means that it's either been invalidated or replaced, in both cases the writeback is aborted because the local entry contains stale data. Reproducer: I originally found this by running `stress` overnight to validate my work on the zswap writeback mechanism, it manifested after hours on my test machine. The key to make it happen is having zswap writebacks, so whatever setup pumps /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/written_back_pages should do the trick. In order to reproduce this faster on a vm, I setup a system with ~100M of available memory and a 500M swap file, then running `stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 300000000 --vm-stride 4000` makes it happen in matter of tens of minutes. One can speed things up even more by swinging /sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent up and down between, say, 20 and 1; this makes it reproduce in tens of seconds. It's crucial to set `--vm-stride` to something other than 4096 otherwise `stress` won't realize that memory has been corrupted because all pages would have the same data.
総合評価: CVE-2023-53178 は低リスク(19.3/100)。CVSS 深刻度は中。悪用される可能性が高い(EPSS 0.10%、1 パーセンタイル) 推奨対応: 総合リスクは低く緊急対応は不要です。通常の保守サイクルでパッチを適用し、CVSS / EPSS が上昇したら優先度を見直してください。
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EPSS は日次で悪用されやすさの相対度合いを推定します。パーセンタイルは採点済み CVE の中での相対位置(高いほど相対的に深刻)を示します。
| # | 日付 | 旧 EPSS スコア | 新 EPSS スコア | Δ(新 − 旧) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.02% | 0.10% | +0.09% |
| 2 | 2025-09-16 | — | 0.02% | — |
EPSS の全履歴 (全 2 件)
この CVE の CVSS 指標。
| ベーススコア | バージョン | 深刻度 | ベクトル | 悪用しやすさ | 影響 | スコアの出典 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.0 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2023-53178 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4, open 1. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53178 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53178 |
suse
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medium | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53178/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2023-53178 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1414 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1017, ignored 162, released 88, needed 75, not-affected 72. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-53178 |
| ベンダー | 製品 | バージョン | 生の CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 3.11, < 6.1.30 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.2, < 6.3.4 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.4 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.4 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.4:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |