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CVE-2023-53566

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

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.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 7

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 22:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 7

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc8:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.4:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 7