CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53338
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
lwt: Fix return values of BPF xmit ops
BPF encap ops can return different types of positive values, such like
NET_RX_DROP, NET_XMIT_CN, NETDEV_TX_BUSY, and so on, from function
skb_do_redirect and bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute. At the xmit hook, such return
values would be treated implicitly as LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE in
ip(6)_finish_output2. When this happens, skbs that have been freed would
continue to the neighbor subsystem, causing use-after-free bug and
kernel crashes.
To fix the incorrect behavior, skb_do_redirect return values can be
simply discarded, the same as tc-egress behavior. On the other hand,
bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute returns useful errors to local senders, e.g. PMTU
information. Thus convert its return values to avoid the conflict with
LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 5.4.257)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.195)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.132)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.53)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.5.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/065d5f17096ec9161180e2c890afdff4dc6125f2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29b22badb7a84b783e3a4fffca16f7768fb31205 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65583f9e070db7bece20710cfa2e3daeb0b831d9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67f8f2bae8e7ac72e09def2b667e44704c4d1ee1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a97f221651fcdc891166e9bc270e3d9bfa5a0080 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d68c17402442f5f494a2c3ebde5cb82f6aa9160a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3f647e4b642f9f6d32795a16f92c116c138d2af Patch