CVE-2023-53516
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macvlan: add forgotten nla_policy for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF The previous commit 954d1fa1ac93 ("macvlan: Add netlink attribute for broadcast cutoff") added one additional attribute named IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF to allow broadcast cutfoff. However, it forgot to describe the nla_policy at macvlan_policy (drivers/net/macvlan.c). Hence, this suppose NLA_S32 (4 bytes) integer can be faked as empty (0 bytes) by a malicious user, which could leads to OOB in heap just like CVE-2023-3773. To fix it, this commit just completes the nla_policy description for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF. This enforces the length check and avoids the potential OOB read.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 954d1fa1ac93aa8a66f7d9a9ba545cf7f020d348 - < 79f44709aa7a744fbfbadd4aef678443290c6991affected 954d1fa1ac93aa8a66f7d9a9ba545cf7f020d348 - < 55cef78c244d0d076f5a75a35530ca63c92f4426 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.4unaffected 0 - < 6.4unaffected 6.4.8 - <= 6.4.*unaffected 6.5 - <= * |
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