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CVE-2023-54177 Affecting kernel-abi-whitelists package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELABIWHITELISTS-14794835
  • published31 Dec 2025
  • disclosed30 Dec 2025
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Introduced: 30 Dec 2025

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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 kernel-abi-whitelists.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-whitelists package and not the kernel-abi-whitelists package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

quota: fix warning in dqgrab()

There's issue as follows when do fault injection: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14870 at include/linux/quotaops.h:51 dquot_disable+0x13b7/0x18c0 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 14870 Comm: fsconfig Not tainted 6.3.0-next-20230505-00006-g5107a9c821af-dirty #541 RIP: 0010:dquot_disable+0x13b7/0x18c0 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000acc79e0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88825e41b980 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88825e41b980 RDI: 0000000000000002 RBP: ffff888179f68000 R08: ffffffff82087ca7 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffed102f3ed026 R12: ffff888179f68130 R13: ffff888179f68110 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff888179f68118 FS: 00007f450a073740(0000) GS:ffff88882fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007ffe96f2efd8 CR3: 000000025c8ad000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> dquot_load_quota_sb+0xd53/0x1060 dquot_resume+0x172/0x230 ext4_reconfigure+0x1dc6/0x27b0 reconfigure_super+0x515/0xa90 __x64_sys_fsconfig+0xb19/0xd20 do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Above issue may happens as follows: ProcessA ProcessB ProcessC sys_fsconfig vfs_fsconfig_locked reconfigure_super ext4_remount dquot_suspend -> suspend all type quota

             sys_fsconfig
              vfs_fsconfig_locked
                reconfigure_super
                 ext4_remount
                  dquot_resume
                   ret = dquot_load_quota_sb
                    add_dquot_ref
                                       do_open  -&gt; open file O_RDWR
                                        vfs_open
                                         do_dentry_open
                                          get_write_access
                                           atomic_inc_unless_negative(&amp;inode-&gt;i_writecount)
                                          ext4_file_open
                                           dquot_file_open
                                            dquot_initialize
                                              __dquot_initialize
                                               dqget
                        atomic_inc(&amp;dquot-&gt;dq_count);


                  __dquot_initialize
                   __dquot_initialize
                    dqget
                     if (!test_bit(DQ_ACTIVE_B, &amp;amp;dquot-&amp;gt;dq_flags))
                       ext4_acquire_dquot
            -&amp;gt; Return error DQ_ACTIVE_B flag isn&amp;#39;t set
                 dquot_disable
      invalidate_dquots
       if (atomic_read(&amp;amp;dquot-&amp;gt;dq_count))
                dqgrab
         WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_bit(DQ_ACTIVE_B, &amp;amp;dquot-&amp;gt;dq_flags))
                  -&amp;gt; Trigger warning

In the above scenario, 'dquot->dq_flags' has no DQ_ACTIVE_B is normal when dqgrab(). To solve above issue just replace the dqgrab() use in invalidate_dquots() with atomic_inc(&dquot->dq_count).

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