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CVE-2023-53286
published 2025-09-16

CVE-2023-53286: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Return the firmware result upon destroying QP/RQ Previously when destroying a…

PriorityP340high7.8CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.14%
3.9th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Return the firmware result upon destroying QP/RQ Previously when destroying a QP/RQ, the result of the firmware destruction function was ignored and upper layers weren't informed about the failure. Which in turn could lead to various problems since when upper layer isn't aware of the failure it continues its operation thinking that the related QP/RQ was successfully destroyed while it actually wasn't, which could lead to the below kernel WARN. Currently, we return the correct firmware destruction status to upper layers which in case of the RQ would be mlx5_ib_destroy_wq() which was already capable of handling RQ destruction failure or in case of a QP to destroy_qp_common(), which now would actually warn upon qp destruction failure. WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 995 at drivers/infiniband/core/rdma_core.c:940 uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0xcb/0xe0 [ib_uverbs] Modules linked in: xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core overlay mlx5_core fuse CPU: 3 PID: 995 Comm: python3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5+ #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0xcb/0xe0 [ib_uverbs] Code: 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e e9 44 34 f0 e0 48 89 df e8 4c 77 ff ff 49 8b 86 10 01 00 00 48 85 c0 74 a1 4c 89 e7 ff d0 eb 9a 0f 0b eb c1 0b be 04 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 b6 f6 ff ff e9 75 ff ff ff 90 0f RSP: 0018:ffff8881533e3e78 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: ffff88811b2cf3e0 RBX: ffff888106209700 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff888106209780 RSI: ffff8881533e3d30 RDI: ffff888109b101a0 RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff888127cb381c R09: 0de9890000000009 R10: ffff888127cb3800 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888106209780 R13: ffff888106209750 R14: ffff888100f20660 R15: 0000000000000000 FS:

Affected

15 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 333fbaa0255b8d471fc7ae767ef3a1766c732d6d < 73311dd831858d797cf8ebe140654ed519b41c3673311dd831858d797cf8ebe140654ed519b41c36
linuxlinux>= 333fbaa0255b8d471fc7ae767ef3a1766c732d6d < 1a650d3ccd79cdd5796edd864683a6b8dd0bf5761a650d3ccd79cdd5796edd864683a6b8dd0bf576
linuxlinux>= 333fbaa0255b8d471fc7ae767ef3a1766c732d6d < 5fe7815e784bf21061885f8112a7108aef5c45bd5fe7815e784bf21061885f8112a7108aef5c45bd
linuxlinux>= 333fbaa0255b8d471fc7ae767ef3a1766c732d6d < 04704c201bb08efaf96d7b1396c6864f8984e24404704c201bb08efaf96d7b1396c6864f8984e244
linuxlinux>= 333fbaa0255b8d471fc7ae767ef3a1766c732d6d < 22664c06e997087fe37f9ba208008c948571214a22664c06e997087fe37f9ba208008c948571214a
linuxlinux_kernel< 5.10.1925.10.192
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.10.197-15.10.197-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.1.52-16.1.52-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.4.13-16.4.13-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.4.13-16.4.13-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.11 < 5.15.1285.15.128
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.16 < 6.1.476.1.47
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.2 < 6.4.126.4.12

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
osv7.8HIGH
vendor_debian7.8HIGH
vendor_redhat7.8HIGH
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