CVE-2023-53333

netfilter: conntrack: dccp: copy entire header to stack buffer, not just basic one

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Sep 16, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Sep 16, 2025

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Description

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

netfilter: conntrack: dccp: copy entire header to stack buffer, not just basic one

Eric Dumazet says: nf_conntrack_dccp_packet() has an unique:

dh = skb_header_pointer(skb, dataoff, sizeof(_dh), &_dh);

And nothing more is 'pulled' from the packet, depending on the content. dh->dccph_doff, and/or dh->dccph_x ...) So dccp_ack_seq() is happily reading stuff past the _dh buffer.

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in nf_conntrack_dccp_packet+0x1134/0x11c0 Read of size 4 at addr ffff000128f66e0c by task syz-executor.2/29371 [..]

Fix this by increasing the stack buffer to also include room for the extra sequence numbers and all the known dccp packet type headers, then pull again after the initial validation of the basic header.

While at it, mark packets invalid that lack 48bit sequence bit but where RFC says the type MUST use them.

Compile tested only.

v2: first skb_header_pointer() now needs to adjust the size to only pull the generic header. (Eric)

Heads-up: I intend to remove dccp conntrack support later this year.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HLinux
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2bc780499aa33311ec0f3e42624dfaa7be0ade5e to before 337fdce450637ea663bc816edc2ba81e5cdad02eAffected
  • 2bc780499aa33311ec0f3e42624dfaa7be0ade5e to before 9bdcda7abaf22f6453e5b5efb7eb4e524095d5d8Affected
  • 2bc780499aa33311ec0f3e42624dfaa7be0ade5e to before c052797ac36813419ad3bfa54cb8615db4b41f15Affected
  • 2bc780499aa33311ec0f3e42624dfaa7be0ade5e to before 5c618daa5038712c4a4ef8923905a2ea1b8836a1Affected
  • 2bc780499aa33311ec0f3e42624dfaa7be0ade5e to before 26bd1f210d3783a691052c51d76bb8a8bbd24c67Affected
  • 2bc780499aa33311ec0f3e42624dfaa7be0ade5e to before 8c0980493beed3a80d6329c44ab293dc8c032927Affected
  • 2bc780499aa33311ec0f3e42624dfaa7be0ade5e to before ff0a3a7d52ff7282dbd183e7fc29a1fe386b0c30Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.26Affected
  • before 2.6.26Not affected
  • 5.4.251 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.188 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.121 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.39 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.3.13 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4.4 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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