CVE-2023-54065

Linux Kernel 5.18-6.2.10, 6.3 - Out-of-Bounds Access in DSA Realtek Probe Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: realtek: fix out-of-bounds access The probe function sets priv->chip_data to (void *)priv + sizeof(*priv) with the expectation that priv has enough trailing space. However, only realtek-smi actually allocated this chip_data space. Do likewise in realtek-mdio to fix out-of-bounds accesses. These accesses likely went unnoticed so far, because of an (unused) buf[4096] member in struct realtek_priv, which caused kmalloc to round up the allocated buffer to a big enough size, so nothing of value was overwritten. With a different allocator (like in the barebox bootloader port of the driver) or with KASAN, the memory corruption becomes quickly apparent.

Scores

EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.9%

Details

Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 6.1.23linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.2.10linux
Linux/Linux < 5.18
Linux/Linux 5.18
Linux/Linux 6.1.23 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2.10 - 6.2.*
Linux/Linux 6.3
Linux/Linux aac94001067da183455d6d37959892744fa01d9d - b93eb564869321d0dffaf23fcc5c88112ed62466
Linux/Linux aac94001067da183455d6d37959892744fa01d9d - cc0f9bb99735d2b68fac68f37b585d615728ce5b
Linux/Linux aac94001067da183455d6d37959892744fa01d9d - fe668aa499b4b95425044ba11af9609db6ecf466
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026