CVE-2023-53338 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 17
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 …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux3a0af8fd61f90920f6fa04e4f1e9a6a73c1b4fd2 — 67f8f2bae8e7ac72e09def2b667e44704c4d1ee1+7
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2023-53338: 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↗2025-09-17
GHSA▶
GHSA-wqfp-wxf7-9vr7: 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↗2025-09-17