CVE-2023-54243 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
5.3MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 30
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free
We are not allowed to return an error at this point.
Looking at the code it looks like ret is always 0 at this
point, but its not.
t = find_table_lock(net, repl->name, &ret, &ebt_mutex);
... this can return a valid table, with ret != 0.
This bug causes update of table->private with the new
blob, but then frees the blob right away in the caller.
Syzbot report:
BUG: KASAN: …
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxc58dd2dd443c26d856a168db108a0cd11c285bf3 — 9060abce3305ab2354c892c09d5689df51486df5+10
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2023-54243: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free We are not allowed to return an↗2025-12-30
GHSA▶
GHSA-2hrc-j4gc-h2p8: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free
We are not allowed to return↗2025-12-30