🛡️ CVE-2023-52610 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags

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

net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags

act_ct adds skb->users before defragmentation. If frags arrive in order,

the last frag's reference is reset in:

inet_frag_reasm_prepare

skb_morph

which is not straightforward.

However when frags arrive out of order, nobody unref the last frag, and

all frags are leaked. The situation is even worse, as initiating packet

capture can lead to a crash[0] when skb has been cloned and shared at the

same time.

Fix the issue by removing skb_get() before defragmentation. act_ct

returns TC_ACT_CONSUMED when defrag failed or in progress.

[0]:

[ 843.804823] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 843.809659] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2091!

[ 843.814516] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

[ 843.819296] CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S 6.7.0-rc3 #2

[ 843.824107] Hardware name: XFUSION 1288H V6/BC13MBSBD, BIOS 1.29 11/25/2022

[ 843.828953] RIP: 0010:pskb_expand_head+0x2ac/0x300

[ 843.833805] Code: 8b 70 28 48 85 f6 74 82 48 83 c6 08 bf 01 00 00 00 e8 38 bd ff ff 8b 83 c0 00 00 00 48 03 83 c8 00 00 00 e9 62 ff ff ff 0f 0b <0f> 0b e8 8d d0 ff ff e9 b3 fd ff ff 81 7c 24 14 40 01 00 00 4c 89

[ 843.843698] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000cce07c0 EFLAGS: 00010202

[ 843.848524] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff88811a211d00 RCX: 0000000000000820

[ 843.853299] RDX: 0000000000000640 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88811a211d00

[ 843.857974] RBP: ffff888127d39518 R08: 00000000bee97314 R09: 0000000000000000

[ 843.862584] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff8881109f0000 R12: 0000000000000880

[ 843.867147] R13: ffff888127d39580 R14: 0000000000000640 R15: ffff888170f7b900

[ 843.871680] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff889ffffc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 843.876242] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 843.880778] CR2: 00007fa42affcfb8 CR3: 000000011433a002 CR4: 0000000000770ef0

[ 843.885336] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

[ 843.889809] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

[ 843.894229] PKRU: 55555554

[ 843.898539] Call Trace:

[ 843.902772] <IRQ>

[ 843.906922] ? __die_body+0x1e/0x60

[ 843.911032] ? die+0x3c/0x60

[ 843.915037] ? do_trap+0xe2/0x110

[ 843.918911] ? pskb_expand_head+0x2ac/0x300

[ 843.922687] ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80

[ 843.926342] ? pskb_expand_head+0x2ac/0x300

[ 843.929905] ? exc_invalid_op+0x50/0x60

[ 843.933398] ? pskb_expand_head+0x2ac/0x300

[ 843.936835] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20

[ 843.940226] ? pskb_expand_head+0x2ac/0x300

[ 843.943580] inet_frag_reasm_prepare+0xd1/0x240

[ 843.946904] ip_defrag+0x5d4/0x870

[ 843.950132] nf_ct_handle_fragments+0xec/0x130 [nf_conntrack]

[ 843.953334] tcf_ct_act+0x252/0xd90 [act_ct]

[ 843.956473] ? tcf_mirred_act+0x516/0x5a0 [act_mirred]

[ 843.959657] tcf_action_exec+0xa1/0x160

[ 843.962823] fl_classify+0x1db/0x1f0 [cls_flower]

[ 843.966010] ? skb_clone+0x53/0xc0

[ 843.969173] tcf_classify+0x24d/0x420

[ 843.972333] tc_run+0x8f/0xf0

[ 843.975465] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x67a/0x1080

[ 843.978634] ? dev_gro_receive+0x249/0x730

[ 843.981759] __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x12d/0x260

[ 843.984869] netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1cb/0x2f0

[ 843.987957] ? mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq_rep+0xfa/0x1a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 843.991170] napi_complete_done+0x72/0x1a0

[ 843.994305] mlx5e_napi_poll+0x28c/0x6d0 [mlx5_core]

[ 843.997501] __napi_poll+0x25/0x1b0

[ 844.000627] net_rx_action+0x256/0x330

[ 844.003705] __do_softirq+0xb3/0x29b

[ 844.006718] irq_exit_rcu+0x9e/0xc0

[ 844.009672] common_interrupt+0x86/0xa0

[ 844.012537] </IRQ>

[ 844.015285] <TASK>

[ 844.017937] asm_common_interrupt+0x26/0x40

[ 844.020591] RIP: 0010:acpi_safe_halt+0x1b/0x20

[ 844.023247] Code: ff 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 65 48 8b 04 25 00 18 03 00 48 8b 00 a8 08 75 0c 66 90 0f 00 2d 81 d0 44 00 fb

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How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no 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.

Affected software

CVE-2023-52610 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.7.0 up to 6.7.2)
  • linux-kernel (from 6.7 up to 6.7.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 March 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)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2023-52610 on other distributions

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Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-03-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.7.0 6.7.2
linux-kernel 6.7 6.7.2

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