CVE-2023-53566
Published: Oct 4, 2025
Modified: May 23, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 7ab87a326f20c52ff4d9972052d085be951c704b - < b76db53ee8802ee5683f8cb401d7e2ec6f9b3d56affected 181859bdfb9734aca449512fccaee4cacce64aed - < 899aa5638568abf5d69de7a7bb95e4615157375baffected 4aacf3d78424293e318c616016865380b37b9cc5 - < 3fa13203b6d90cc3a33af47b058739f92ab82eefaffected 2bf1435fa19d2c58054391b3bba40d5510a5758c - < ec5caa765f7f6960011c919c9aeb1467940421f6affected 318cb24a4c3fce8140afaf84e4d45fcb76fb280b - < a836be60a3aabcedcd9c79f545d409ace1f20ba6+5 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.2unaffected 0 - < 6.2unaffected 5.10.181 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.113 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.30 - <= 6.1.*+2 more versions |
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