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CVE-2023-53566

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CVE-2023-53566

Published: Oct 4, 2025

Modified: May 23, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion There is no guarantee that rb_prev() will not return NULL in nft_rbtree_gc_elem(): general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] nft_add_set_elem+0x14b0/0x2990 nf_tables_newsetelem+0x528/0xb30 Furthermore, there is a possible use-after-free while iterating, 'node' can be free'd so we need to cache the next value to use.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
7ab87a326f20c52ff4d9972052d085be951c704b - < b76db53ee8802ee5683f8cb401d7e2ec6f9b3d56
affected
181859bdfb9734aca449512fccaee4cacce64aed - < 899aa5638568abf5d69de7a7bb95e4615157375b
affected
4aacf3d78424293e318c616016865380b37b9cc5 - < 3fa13203b6d90cc3a33af47b058739f92ab82eef
affected
2bf1435fa19d2c58054391b3bba40d5510a5758c - < ec5caa765f7f6960011c919c9aeb1467940421f6
affected
318cb24a4c3fce8140afaf84e4d45fcb76fb280b - < a836be60a3aabcedcd9c79f545d409ace1f20ba6

+5 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
6.2
unaffected
0 - < 6.2
unaffected
5.10.181 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.113 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.30 - <= 6.1.*

+2 more versions

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