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🛡️ CVE-2023-52435 — kernel

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

net: prevent mss overflow in skb_segment()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: prevent mss overflow in skb_segment()

Once again syzbot is able to crash the kernel in skb_segment() [1]

GSO_BY_FRAGS is a forbidden value, but unfortunately the following

computation in skb_segment() can reach it quite easily :

mss = mss * partial_segs;

65535 = 3 * 5 * 17 * 257, so many initial values of mss can lead to

a bad final result.

Make sure to limit segmentation so that the new mss value is smaller

than GSO_BY_FRAGS.

[1]

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000e: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000070-0x0000000000000077]

CPU: 1 PID: 5079 Comm: syz-executor993 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc4-syzkaller-00141-g1ae4cd3cbdd0 #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/10/2023

RIP: 0010:skb_segment+0x181d/0x3f30 net/core/skbuff.c:4551

Code: 83 e3 02 e9 fb ed ff ff e8 90 68 1c f9 48 8b 84 24 f8 00 00 00 48 8d 78 70 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 8a 21 00 00 48 8b 84 24 f8 00

RSP: 0018:ffffc900043473d0 EFLAGS: 00010202

RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000010046 RCX: ffffffff886b1597

RDX: 000000000000000e RSI: ffffffff886b2520 RDI: 0000000000000070

RBP: ffffc90004347578 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 000000000000ffff

R10: 000000000000ffff R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff888063202ac0

R13: 0000000000010000 R14: 000000000000ffff R15: 0000000000000046

FS: 0000555556e7e380(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000020010000 CR3: 0000000027ee2000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<TASK>

udp6_ufo_fragment+0xa0e/0xd00 net/ipv6/udp_offload.c:109

ipv6_gso_segment+0x534/0x17e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:120

skb_mac_gso_segment+0x290/0x610 net/core/gso.c:53

__skb_gso_segment+0x339/0x710 net/core/gso.c:124

skb_gso_segment include/net/gso.h:83 [inline]

validate_xmit_skb+0x36c/0xeb0 net/core/dev.c:3626

__dev_queue_xmit+0x6f3/0x3d60 net/core/dev.c:4338

dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]

packet_xmit+0x257/0x380 net/packet/af_packet.c:276

packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3087 [inline]

packet_sendmsg+0x24c6/0x5220 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]

__sock_sendmsg+0xd5/0x180 net/socket.c:745

__sys_sendto+0x255/0x340 net/socket.c:2190

__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2202 [inline]

__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2198 [inline]

__x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2198

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x40/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

RIP: 0033:0x7f8692032aa9

Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 d1 19 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48

RSP: 002b:00007fff8d685418 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007f8692032aa9

RDX: 0000000000010048 RSI: 00000000200000c0 RDI: 0000000000000003

RBP: 00000000000f4240 R08: 0000000020000540 R09: 0000000000000014

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff8d685480

R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007fff8d685480 R15: 0000000000000003

</TASK>

Modules linked in:

---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

RIP: 0010:skb_segment+0x181d/0x3f30 net/core/skbuff.c:4551

Code: 83 e3 02 e9 fb ed ff ff e8 90 68 1c f9 48 8b 84 24 f8 00 00 00 48 8d 78 70 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 8a 21 00 00 48 8b 84 24 f8 00

RSP: 0018:ffffc900043473d0 EFLAGS: 00010202

RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000010046 RCX: ffffffff886b1597

RDX: 000000000000000e RSI: ffffffff886b2520 RDI: 0000000000000070

RBP: ffffc90004347578 R0

---truncated---

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Affected software

CVE-2023-52435 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.2.0 up to 6.6.11)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 20 February 2024 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2023-52435 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-02-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.2.0 6.6.11
linux-kernel — —

References

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