diff --git a/pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo_linux.go b/pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo_linux.go
index f3772078d0..eb59f621ab 100644
--- a/pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo_linux.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 
@@ -12,7 +13,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3/cgroup1"
 	"github.com/containerd/containerd/pkg/seccomp"
 	"github.com/containerd/log"
-	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/parsers"
 	"github.com/moby/sys/mountinfo"
 )
 
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ func readProcBool(path string) bool {
 const defaultMaxCPUs = 8192
 
 func isCpusetListAvailable(requested, available string) (bool, error) {
-	parsedAvailable, err := parsers.ParseUintList(available)
+	parsedAvailable, err := parseUintList(available, 0)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, err
 	}
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ func isCpusetListAvailable(requested, available string) (bool, error) {
 			maxCPUs = m
 		}
 	}
-	parsedRequested, err := parsers.ParseUintListMaximum(requested, maxCPUs)
+	parsedRequested, err := parseUintList(requested, maxCPUs)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, err
 	}
@@ -352,3 +352,61 @@ func isCpusetListAvailable(requested, available string) (bool, error) {
 	}
 	return true, nil
 }
+
+// parseUintList parses and validates the specified string as the value
+// found in some cgroup file (e.g. `cpuset.cpus`, `cpuset.mems`), which could be
+// one of the formats below. Note that duplicates are actually allowed in the
+// input string. It returns a `map[int]bool` with available elements from `val`
+// set to `true`. Values larger than `maximum` cause an error if max is non zero,
+// in order to stop the map becoming excessively large.
+// Supported formats:
+//
+//	7
+//	1-6
+//	0,3-4,7,8-10
+//	0-0,0,1-7
+//	03,1-3      <- this is gonna get parsed as [1,2,3]
+//	3,2,1
+//	0-2,3,1
+func parseUintList(val string, maximum int) (map[int]bool, error) {
+	if val == "" {
+		return map[int]bool{}, nil
+	}
+
+	availableInts := make(map[int]bool)
+	split := strings.Split(val, ",")
+	errInvalidFormat := fmt.Errorf("invalid format: %s", val)
+
+	for _, r := range split {
+		if !strings.Contains(r, "-") {
+			v, err := strconv.Atoi(r)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, errInvalidFormat
+			}
+			if maximum != 0 && v > maximum {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("value of out range, maximum is %d", maximum)
+			}
+			availableInts[v] = true
+		} else {
+			minS, maxS, _ := strings.Cut(r, "-")
+			minAvailable, err := strconv.Atoi(minS)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, errInvalidFormat
+			}
+			maxAvailable, err := strconv.Atoi(maxS)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, errInvalidFormat
+			}
+			if maxAvailable < minAvailable {
+				return nil, errInvalidFormat
+			}
+			if maximum != 0 && maxAvailable > maximum {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("value of out range, maximum is %d", maximum)
+			}
+			for i := minAvailable; i <= maxAvailable; i++ {
+				availableInts[i] = true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return availableInts, nil
+}
diff --git a/pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo_linux_test.go b/pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo_linux_test.go
index f309c4132c..c7b021e6b6 100644
--- a/pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo_linux_test.go
+++ b/pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo_linux_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package sysinfo // import "github.com/docker/docker/pkg/sysinfo"
 import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"reflect"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/containerd/containerd/pkg/seccomp"
@@ -93,3 +94,53 @@ func TestIsCpusetListAvailable(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestParseUintList(t *testing.T) {
+	valids := map[string]map[int]bool{
+		"":             {},
+		"7":            {7: true},
+		"1-6":          {1: true, 2: true, 3: true, 4: true, 5: true, 6: true},
+		"0-7":          {0: true, 1: true, 2: true, 3: true, 4: true, 5: true, 6: true, 7: true},
+		"0,3-4,7,8-10": {0: true, 3: true, 4: true, 7: true, 8: true, 9: true, 10: true},
+		"0-0,0,1-4":    {0: true, 1: true, 2: true, 3: true, 4: true},
+		"03,1-3":       {1: true, 2: true, 3: true},
+		"3,2,1":        {1: true, 2: true, 3: true},
+		"0-2,3,1":      {0: true, 1: true, 2: true, 3: true},
+	}
+	for k, v := range valids {
+		out, err := parseUintList(k, 0)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Expected not to fail, got %v", err)
+		}
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(out, v) {
+			t.Fatalf("Expected %v, got %v", v, out)
+		}
+	}
+
+	invalids := []string{
+		"this",
+		"1--",
+		"1-10,,10",
+		"10-1",
+		"-1",
+		"-1,0",
+	}
+	for _, v := range invalids {
+		if out, err := parseUintList(v, 0); err == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Expected failure with %s but got %v", v, out)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseUintListMaximumLimits(t *testing.T) {
+	v := "10,1000"
+	if _, err := parseUintList(v, 0); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Expected not to fail, got %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := parseUintList(v, 1000); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Expected not to fail, got %v", err)
+	}
+	if out, err := parseUintList(v, 100); err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Expected failure with %s but got %v", v, out)
+	}
+}