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🛡️ CVE-2023-54148 — kernel

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Description

net/mlx5e: Move representor neigh cleanup to profile cleanup_tx

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

net/mlx5e: Move representor neigh cleanup to profile cleanup_tx

For IP tunnel encapsulation in ECMP (Equal-Cost Multipath) mode, as

the flow is duplicated to the peer eswitch, the related neighbour

information on the peer uplink representor is created as well.

In the cited commit, eswitch devcom unpair is moved to uplink unload

API, specifically the profile->cleanup_tx. If there is a encap rule

offloaded in ECMP mode, when one eswitch does unpair (because of

unloading the driver, for instance), and the peer rule from the peer

eswitch is going to be deleted, the use-after-free error is triggered

while accessing neigh info, as it is already cleaned up in uplink's

profile->disable, which is before its profile->cleanup_tx.

To fix this issue, move the neigh cleanup to profile's cleanup_tx

callback, and after mlx5e_cleanup_uplink_rep_tx is called. The neigh

init is moved to init_tx for symmeter.

[ 2453.376299] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.379125] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888127af9008 by task modprobe/2496

[ 2453.381542] CPU: 7 PID: 2496 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G B 6.4.0-rc7+ #15

[ 2453.383386] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

[ 2453.384335] Call Trace:

[ 2453.384625] <TASK>

[ 2453.384891] dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x50

[ 2453.385285] print_report+0xc2/0x610

[ 2453.385667] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xb1/0x130

[ 2453.386091] ? mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.386757] kasan_report+0xae/0xe0

[ 2453.387123] ? mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.387798] mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.388465] mlx5e_rep_encap_entry_detach+0xa6/0xe0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.389111] mlx5e_encap_dealloc+0xa7/0x100 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.389706] mlx5e_tc_tun_encap_dests_unset+0x61/0xb0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.390361] mlx5_free_flow_attr_actions+0x11e/0x340 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.391015] ? complete_all+0x43/0xd0

[ 2453.391398] ? free_flow_post_acts+0x38/0x120 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.392004] mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow+0x4ae/0x690 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.392618] mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow+0x308/0x370 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.393276] mlx5e_tc_clean_fdb_peer_flows+0xf5/0x140 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.393925] mlx5_esw_offloads_unpair+0x86/0x540 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.394546] ? mlx5_esw_offloads_set_ns_peer.isra.0+0x180/0x180 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.395268] ? down_write+0xaa/0x100

[ 2453.395652] mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_event+0x203/0x530 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.396317] mlx5_devcom_send_event+0xbb/0x190 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.396917] mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_cleanup+0xb0/0xd0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.397582] mlx5e_tc_esw_cleanup+0x42/0x120 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.398182] mlx5e_rep_tc_cleanup+0x15/0x30 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.398768] mlx5e_cleanup_rep_tx+0x6c/0x80 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.399367] mlx5e_detach_netdev+0xee/0x120 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.399957] mlx5e_netdev_change_profile+0x84/0x170 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.400598] mlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0xe0/0xf0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.403781] mlx5_eswitch_unregister_vport_reps+0x15e/0x190 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.404479] ? mlx5_eswitch_register_vport_reps+0x200/0x200 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.405170] ? up_write+0x39/0x60

[ 2453.405529] ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xb7/0xe0

[ 2453.405985] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x2e/0x40

[ 2453.406405] device_release_driver_internal+0x243/0x2d0

[ 2453.406900] ? kobject_put+0x42/0x2d0

[ 2453.407284] bus_remove_device+0x128/0x1d0

[ 2453.407687] device_del+0x240/0x550

[ 2453.408053] ? waiting_for_supplier_show+0xe0/0xe0

[ 2453.408511] ? kobject_put+0xfa/0x2d0

[ 2453.408889] ? __kmem_cache_free+0x14d/0x280

[ 2453.409310] mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked.part.0+0xcd/0x2b0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.409973] mlx5_unregister_device+0x40/0x50 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.410561] mlx5_uninit_one+0x3d/0x110 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.411111] remove_one+0x89/0x130 [mlx5_core]

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Affected software

CVE-2023-54148 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.2.0 up to 6.4.10)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 24 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. 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-2023-54148 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.2.0 6.4.10
unknown — —

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