linux — security advisory

{
  "id": "c95adb9512fbbcf9537fae65306c3f2a652f67bc3611bd5f403b95088192bd27",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54242",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54242",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block, bfq: Fix division by zero error on zero wsum When the weighted sum is zero the calculation of limit causes a division by zero error. Fix this by continuing to the next level. This was discovered by running as root: stress-ng --ioprio 0 Fixes divison by error oops: [ 521.450556] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 521.450766] CPU: 2 PID: 2684464 Comm: stress-ng-iopri Not tainted 6.2.1-1280.native #1 [ 521.451117] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.1-0-g3208b098f51a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 521.451627] RIP: 0010:bfqq_request_over_limit+0x207/0x400 [ 521.451875] Code: 01 48 8d 0c c8 74 0b 48 8b 82 98 00 00 00 48 8d 0c c8 8b 85 34 ff ff ff 48 89 ca 41 0f af 41 50 48 d1 ea 48 98 48 01 d0 31 d2 <48> f7 f1 41 39 41 48 89 85 34 ff ff ff 0f 8c 7b 01 00 00 49 8b 44 [ 521.452699] RSP: 0018:ffffb1af84eb3948 EFLAGS: 00010046 [ 521.452938] RAX: 000000000000003c RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 521.453262] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffb1af84eb3978 [ 521.453584] RBP: ffffb1af84eb3a30 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8f88ab8a4ba0 [ 521.453905] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8f88ab8a4b18 [ 521.454224] R13: ffff8f8699093000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffb1af84eb3970 [ 521.454549] FS: 00005640b6b0b580(0000) GS:ffff8f88b3880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 521.454912] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 521.45",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54242",
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        "name": {
          "value": "linux",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
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          {
            "value": "6.1.37-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
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            "value": "6.1.27-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          }
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      },
      {
        "name": {
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        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
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            "value": "6.3.7-1",
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      {
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    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
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        "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54242"
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          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
          "versions": [
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
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              ]
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
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              ]
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T17:47:44.506704162Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2023-54242"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-54242"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-54242",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 454847,
  "published_at": "2025-12-30T13:16:12.77+00:00"
}