CVE-2023-53338

lwt: Fix return values of BPF xmit ops

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Sep 17, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Sep 16, 2025

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Description

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

lwt: Fix return values of BPF xmit ops

BPF encap ops can return different types of positive values, such like NET_RX_DROP, NET_XMIT_CN, NETDEV_TX_BUSY, and so on, from function skb_do_redirect and bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute. At the xmit hook, such return values would be treated implicitly as LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE in ip(6)_finish_output2. When this happens, skbs that have been freed would continue to the neighbor subsystem, causing use-after-free bug and kernel crashes.

To fix the incorrect behavior, skb_do_redirect return values can be simply discarded, the same as tc-egress behavior. On the other hand, bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute returns useful errors to local senders, e.g. PMTU information. Thus convert its return values to avoid the conflict with LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3a0af8fd61f90920f6fa04e4f1e9a6a73c1b4fd2 to before 67f8f2bae8e7ac72e09def2b667e44704c4d1ee1Affected
  • 3a0af8fd61f90920f6fa04e4f1e9a6a73c1b4fd2 to before a97f221651fcdc891166e9bc270e3d9bfa5a0080Affected
  • 3a0af8fd61f90920f6fa04e4f1e9a6a73c1b4fd2 to before e3f647e4b642f9f6d32795a16f92c116c138d2afAffected
  • 3a0af8fd61f90920f6fa04e4f1e9a6a73c1b4fd2 to before 065d5f17096ec9161180e2c890afdff4dc6125f2Affected
  • 3a0af8fd61f90920f6fa04e4f1e9a6a73c1b4fd2 to before d68c17402442f5f494a2c3ebde5cb82f6aa9160aAffected
  • 3a0af8fd61f90920f6fa04e4f1e9a6a73c1b4fd2 to before 65583f9e070db7bece20710cfa2e3daeb0b831d9Affected
  • 3a0af8fd61f90920f6fa04e4f1e9a6a73c1b4fd2 to before 29b22badb7a84b783e3a4fffca16f7768fb31205Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.10Affected
  • before 4.10Not affected
  • 5.4.257 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.195 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.132 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.53 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.16 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5.3 through 6.5.*Not affected
  • 6.6 and laterNot affected

References

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