CVE-2023-53398

HIGH

Linux Kernel 6.0-6.1.17, 6.2.0-6.2.4 - Use-After-Free in mlx5 PTP Queue FIFO

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlx5: fix possible ptp queue fifo use-after-free Fifo indexes are not checked during pop operations and it leads to potential use-after-free when poping from empty queue. Such case was possible during re-sync action. WARN_ON_ONCE covers future cases. There were out-of-order cqe spotted which lead to drain of the queue and use-after-free because of lack of fifo pointers check. Special check and counter are added to avoid resync operation if SKB could not exist in the fifo because of OOO cqe (skb_id must be between consumer and producer index).

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (9)
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a - 3a50cf1e8e5157b82268eee7e330dbe5736a0948
Linux/Linux 58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a - 52e6e7a0bc04c85012a9251c7cf2d444a77eb966
Linux/Linux 58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a - 6afdedc4e66e3846ce497744f01b95c34bf39d21
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux 6.1.18 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2.5 - 6.2.*
Linux/Linux 6.3
linux/linux_kernel 6.0 - 6.1.18
Published Sep 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026