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CVE-2023-54238— mlx5: fix skb leak while fifo resync and push

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Affected
Linux Linux
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于SKB未正确释放和计数器类型提升错误，可能导致内存泄漏。

CVSS 7.8 · High EPSS 0.14% · P3

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1496 · Resource Hijacking

Affected Version Matrix 8

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux 58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a< 234cffda95e1049f58e8ec136ef105c633f0ed19 affected
58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a< 68504c66d08c70fb92799722e25a932d311d74fd affected
58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a< e435941b1da1a0be4ff8a7ae425774c76a5ac514 affected
6.0 affected
< 6.0 unaffected
6.1.18≤ 6.1.* unaffected
6.2.5≤ 6.2.* unaffected
6.3≤ * unaffected
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2023-54238

Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
mlx5: fix skb leak while fifo resync and push
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlx5: fix skb leak while fifo resync and push During ptp resync operation SKBs were poped from the fifo but were never freed neither by napi_consume nor by dev_kfree_skb_any. Add call to napi_consume_skb to properly free SKBs. Another leak was happening because mlx5e_skb_fifo_has_room() had an error in the check. Comparing free running counters works well unless C promotes the types to something wider than the counter. In this case counters are u16 but the result of the substraction is promouted to int and it causes wrong result (negative value) of the check when producer have already overlapped but consumer haven't yet. Explicit cast to u16 fixes the issue.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于SKB未正确释放和计数器类型提升错误，可能导致内存泄漏。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
Linux Linux 58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a ~ 234cffda95e1049f58e8ec136ef105c633f0ed19 -
Linux Linux 6.0 -

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Other References for CVE-2023-54238 (3)

Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2025-12-30 · 244 CVEs total

CVE-2023-54184 9.8 CRITICAL scsi: target: iscsit: Free cmds before session free
CVE-2023-54223 9.8 CRITICAL net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix invalid buffer access for legacy rq
CVE-2023-54237 9.8 CRITICAL net/smc: fix potential panic dues to unprotected smc_llc_srv_add_link()
CVE-2023-54257 9.8 CRITICAL net: macb: fix a memory corruption in extended buffer descriptor mode
CVE-2023-54258 9.8 CRITICAL cifs: fix potential oops in cifs_oplock_break
CVE-2023-54269 9.8 CRITICAL SUNRPC: double free xprt_ctxt while still in use
CVE-2023-54280 9.8 CRITICAL cifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc
CVE-2023-54292 9.8 CRITICAL RDMA/irdma: Fix data race on CQP request done
CVE-2023-54203 9.1 CRITICAL ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds in init_smb2_rsp_hdr
CVE-2023-54162 8.8 HIGH ksmbd: fix possible memory leak in smb2_lock()
CVE-2023-54318 8.8 HIGH net/smc: use smc_lgr_list.lock to protect smc_lgr_list.list iterate in smcr_port_add
CVE-2023-54262 8.8 HIGH net/mlx5e: Don't clone flow post action attributes second time
CVE-2023-54214 8.8 HIGH Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix potential user-after-free
CVE-2022-50880 8.8 HIGH wifi: ath10k: add peer map clean up for peer delete in ath10k_sta_state()
CVE-2023-54250 8.2 HIGH ksmbd: avoid out of bounds access in decode_preauth_ctxt()
CVE-2023-54164 8.0 HIGH Bluetooth: ISO: fix iso_conn related locking and validity issues
CVE-2023-54210 7.8 HIGH Bluetooth: hci_sync: Avoid use-after-free in dbg for hci_remove_adv_monitor()
CVE-2023-54201 7.8 HIGH RDMA/efa: Fix wrong resources deallocation order
CVE-2023-54206 7.8 HIGH net/sched: flower: fix filter idr initialization
CVE-2022-50860 7.8 HIGH apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()

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