CVE-2023-53147

MEDIUM EPSS 4.3%
Published Sep 15, 20259mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Sep 15, 2025 9mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: add NULL check in xfrm_update_ae_params Normally, x->replay_esn and x->preplay_esn should be allocated at xfrm_alloc_replay_state_esn(...) in xfrm_state_construct(...), hence the xfrm_update_ae_params(...) is okay to update them. However, the current implementation of xfrm_new_ae(...) allows a malicious user to directly dereference a NULL pointer and crash the kernel like below. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 PGD 8253067 P4D 8253067 PUD 8e0e067 PMD 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 98 Comm: poc.npd Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7-00072-gdad9774deaf1 #8 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.o4 RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xad/0x140 Code: e8 4c 89 5f e0 48 8d 7f e0 73 d2 83 c2 20 48 29 d6 48 29 d7 83 fa 10 72 34 4c 8b 06 4c 8b 4e 08 c RSP: 0018:ffff888008f57658 EFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888008bd0000 RCX: ffffffff8238e571 RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: ffff888007f64844 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888008f57818 R13: ffff888007f64aa4 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00000000014013c0(0000) GS:ffff88806d600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000054d8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x1f/0x70 ? page_fault_oops+0x1e8/0x500 ? __pfx_is_prefetch.constprop.0+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_page_fault_oops+0x10/0x10 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x11/0x40 ? fixup_exception+0x36/0x460 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x11/0x40 ? exc_page_fault+0x5e/0xc0 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 ? xfrm_update_ae_params+0xd1/0x260 ? memcpy_orig+0xad/0x140 ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_bh+0x10/0x10 xfrm_update_ae_params+0xe7/0x260 xfrm_new_ae+0x298/0x4e0 ? __pfx_xfrm_new_ae+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_xfrm_new_ae+0x10/0x10 xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x25a/0x410 ? __pfx_xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10 ? __alloc_skb+0xcf/0x210 ? stack_trace_save+0x90/0xd0 ? filter_irq_stacks+0x1c/0x70 ? __stack_depot_save+0x39/0x4e0 ? __kasan_slab_free+0x10a/0x190 ? kmem_cache_free+0x9c/0x340 ? netlink_recvmsg+0x23c/0x660 ? sock_recvmsg+0xeb/0xf0 ? __sys_recvfrom+0x13c/0x1f0 ? __x64_sys_recvfrom+0x71/0x90 ? do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc ? copyout+0x3e/0x50 netlink_rcv_skb+0xd6/0x210 ? __pfx_xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_netlink_rcv_skb+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_sock_has_perm+0x10/0x10 ? mutex_lock+0x8d/0xe0 ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10 xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x44/0x50 netlink_unicast+0x36f/0x4c0 ? __pfx_netlink_unicast+0x10/0x10 ? netlink_recvmsg+0x500/0x660 netlink_sendmsg+0x3b7/0x700 This Null-ptr-deref bug is assigned CVE-2023-3772. And this commit adds additional NULL check in xfrm_update_ae_params to fix the NPD.

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
4.3% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference Memory Safety

Affected Products 13

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥2.6.39  –  <4.14.324
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.15  –  <4.19.293
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.20  –  <5.4.255
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.5  –  <5.10.192
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.11  –  <5.15.128
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.16  –  <6.1.47
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.2  –  <6.4.12
linuxlinux_kernel6.5any
linuxlinux_kernel6.5any
linuxlinux_kernel6.5any
linuxlinux_kernel6.5any
linuxlinux_kernel6.5any
linuxlinux_kernel6.5any

References 8

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00374d9b6d9f932802b55181be9831aa948e5b7c
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/075448a2eb753f813fe873cfa52853e9fef8eedb
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44f69c96f8a147413c23c68cda4d6fb5e23137cd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53df4be4f5221e90dc7aa9ce745a9a21bb7024f4
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8046beb890ebc83c5820188c650073e1c6066e67
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b655f4936b6fc01f3658aa88a22c923b379ebd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd30aa9c7febb6e709670cd5154194189ca3b7b5
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed1cba039309c80b49719fcff3e3d7cdddb73d96
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00374d9b6d9f932802b55181be9831aa948e5b7c
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/075448a2eb753f813fe873cfa52853e9fef8eedb
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44f69c96f8a147413c23c68cda4d6fb5e23137cd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53df4be4f5221e90dc7aa9ce745a9a21bb7024f4
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8046beb890ebc83c5820188c650073e1c6066e67
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b655f4936b6fc01f3658aa88a22c923b379ebd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd30aa9c7febb6e709670cd5154194189ca3b7b5
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed1cba039309c80b49719fcff3e3d7cdddb73d96
    Patch