CVE-2023-52925

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Duplicate Element Insertion in nf_tables

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: don't fail inserts if duplicate has expired nftables selftests fail: run-tests.sh testcases/sets/0044interval_overlap_0 Expected: 0-2 . 0-3, got: W: [FAILED] ./testcases/sets/0044interval_overlap_0: got 1 Insertion must ignore duplicate but expired entries. Moreover, there is a strange asymmetry in nft_pipapo_activate: It refetches the current element, whereas the other ->activate callbacks (bitmap, hash, rhash, rbtree) use elem->priv. Same for .remove: other set implementations take elem->priv, nft_pipapo_remove fetches elem->priv, then does a relookup, remove this. I suspect this was the reason for the change that prompted the removal of the expired check in pipapo_get() in the first place, but skipping exired elements there makes no sense to me, this helper is used for normal get requests, insertions (duplicate check) and deactivate callback. In first two cases expired elements must be skipped. For ->deactivate(), this gets called for DELSETELEM, so it seems to me that expired elements should be skipped as well, i.e. delete request should fail with -ENOENT error.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel 6.4.11 - 6.4.12linux
Linux/Linux 1da4874d05da1526b11b82fc7f3c7ac38749ddf8
Linux/Linux 24138933b97b055d486e8064b4a1721702442a9b - 7845914f45f066497ac75b30c50dbc735e84e884
Linux/Linux 4.19.316 - 4.20
Linux/Linux 5.4.262 - 5.5
Linux/Linux 59dab3bf0b8fc08eb802721c0532f13dd89209b8 - 59ee68c437c562170265194a99698c805a686bb3
Linux/Linux 6.4.11 - 6.4.12
Linux/Linux 7c7e658a36f8b1522bd3586d8137e5f93a25ddc5 - af78b0489e8898a8c9449ffc0fdd2e181916f0d4
Linux/Linux 94313a196b44184b5b52c1876da6a537701b425a
Linux/Linux b15ea4017af82011dd55225ce77cce3d4dfc169c - 891ca5dfe3b718b441fc786014a7ba8f517da188
... and 4 more
Published Feb 05, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026