CVE-2023-53398

high

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).

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6afdedc4e66e3846ce497744f01b95c34bf39d21

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52e6e7a0bc04c85012a9251c7cf2d444a77eb966

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a50cf1e8e5157b82268eee7e330dbe5736a0948

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-18

Updated: 2025-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017