CVE-2023-53495 — Out-of-bounds Write in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 1
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: mvpp2_main: fix possible OOB write in mvpp2_ethtool_get_rxnfc()
rules is allocated in ethtool_get_rxnfc and the size is determined by
rule_cnt from user space. So rule_cnt needs to be check before using
rules to avoid OOB writing or NULL pointer dereference.
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/linux90b509b39ac9b09be88eb641c7a3abd8de06b698 — ba6673824efa3dc198b04a54e69dce480066d7d9+6
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-67h2-jhv4-3f99: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: mvpp2_main: fix possible OOB write in mvpp2_ethtool_get_rxnfc()
r↗2025-10-01
OSV▶
CVE-2023-53495: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: mvpp2_main: fix possible OOB write in mvpp2_ethtool_get_rxnfc() rul↗2025-10-01