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🛡️ CVE-2023-52487 — kernel

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

net/mlx5e: Fix peer flow lists handling

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

net/mlx5e: Fix peer flow lists handling

The cited change refactored mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow() to only clear DUP

flag when list of peer flows has become empty. However, if any concurrent

user holds a reference to a peer flow (for example, the neighbor update

workqueue task is updating peer flow's parent encap entry concurrently),

then the flow will not be removed from the peer list and, consecutively,

DUP flag will remain set. Since mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow() calls

mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow() for every possible peer index the algorithm

will try to remove the flow from eswitch instances that it has never peered

with causing either NULL pointer dereference when trying to remove the flow

peer list head of peer_index that was never initialized or a warning if the

list debug config is enabled[0].

Fix the issue by always removing the peer flow from the list even when not

releasing the last reference to it.

[0]:

[ 3102.985806] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 3102.986223] list_del corruption, ffff888139110698->next is NULL

[ 3102.986757] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 22109 at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0

[ 3102.987561] Modules linked in: act_ct nf_flow_table bonding act_tunnel_key act_mirred act_skbedit vxlan cls_matchall nfnetlink_cttimeout act_gact cls_flower sch_ingress mlx5_vdpa vringh vhost_iotlb vdpa openvswitch nsh xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat xt_addrtype xt_conntrack nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcg

ss oid_registry overlay rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5_core [last unloaded: bonding]

[ 3102.991113] CPU: 2 PID: 22109 Comm: revalidator28 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc6+ #3

[ 3102.991695] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

[ 3102.992605] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0

[ 3102.993122] Code: 39 c2 74 56 48 8b 32 48 39 fe 75 62 48 8b 51 08 48 39 f2 75 73 b8 01 00 00 00 c3 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 48 fd 0a 82 e8 41 0b ad ff <0f> 0b 31 c0 c3 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 70 fd 0a 82 e8 2d 0b ad ff 0f 0b

[ 3102.994615] RSP: 0018:ffff8881383e7710 EFLAGS: 00010286

[ 3102.995078] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000

[ 3102.995670] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff88885f89b640 RDI: ffff88885f89b640

[ 3102.997188] DEL flow 00000000be367878 on port 0

[ 3102.998594] RBP: dead000000000122 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffffdfff

[ 3102.999604] R10: 0000000000000008 R11: ffff8881383e7598 R12: dead000000000100

[ 3103.000198] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff888139110000 R15: ffff888101901240

[ 3103.000790] FS: 00007f424cde4700(0000) GS:ffff88885f880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 3103.001486] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 3103.001986] CR2: 00007fd42e8dcb70 CR3: 000000011e68a003 CR4: 0000000000370ea0

[ 3103.002596] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

[ 3103.003190] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

[ 3103.003787] Call Trace:

[ 3103.004055] <TASK>

[ 3103.004297] ? __warn+0x7d/0x130

[ 3103.004623] ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0

[ 3103.005094] ? report_bug+0xf1/0x1c0

[ 3103.005439] ? console_unlock+0x4a/0xd0

[ 3103.005806] ? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70

[ 3103.006149] ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60

[ 3103.006531] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20

[ 3103.007430] ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0

[ 3103.007910] mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow+0xcf/0x240 [mlx5_core]

[ 3103.008463] mlx5e_tc_del_flow+0x46/0x270 [mlx5_core]

[ 3103.008944] mlx5e_flow_put+0x26/0x50 [mlx5_core]

[ 3103.009401] mlx5e_delete_flower+0x25f/0x380 [mlx5_core]

[ 3103.009901] tc_setup_cb_destroy+0xab/0x180

[ 3103.010292] fl_hw_destroy_filter+0x99/0xc0 [cls_flower]

[ 3103.010779] __fl_delete+0x2d4/0x2f0 [cls_flower]

[ 3103.0

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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-2023-52487 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.7.0 up to 6.7.3)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 29 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)
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-2023-52487 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

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 2024-02-29
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.7.0 6.7.3
linux-kernel — —

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