CVE-2023-53312 - Vulnerability Details

- net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset()

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset()

After blamed commit, we must be more careful about using
skb_transport_offset(), as reminded us by syzbot:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.1.30-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet
RIP: 0010:skb_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline]
RIP: 0010:perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14
Code: 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 3b 84 24 c0 00 00 00 0f 85 4e 04 00 00 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc e8 56 22 01 fd <0f> 0b e9 f6 fc ff ff 89 f9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 86 f9 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900002bf700 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8485d8ca RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: ffff888100914280
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ffff RDI: 000000000000ffff
RBP: ffffc900002bf818 R08: ffffffff8485d5b6 R09: fffffbfff0f8fb5e
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff110217d8f67
R13: ffff88810bec7b3a R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f96cf6d52f0 CR3: 000000012224c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
[<ffffffff84715e35>] trace_net_dev_start_xmit include/trace/events/net.h:14 [inline]
[<ffffffff84715e35>] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3643 [inline]
[<ffffffff84715e35>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x705/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660
[<ffffffff8471a232>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x16b2/0x3370 net/core/dev.c:4324
[<ffffffff85416493>] dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3030 [inline]
[<ffffffff85416493>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x3f3/0x680 net/batman-adv/send.c:108
[<ffffffff85416744>] batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127
[<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:393 [inline]
[<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:421 [inline]
[<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x69a/0x840 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1701
[<ffffffff8151023c>] process_one_work+0x8ac/0x1170 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
[<ffffffff81511938>] worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2436

Published: 2025-09-16

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Linux

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6`	affected	< ced61418f46993d571385812bafed3a7d4ab6918
`66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6`	affected	< 58f9e88eb247263c74383b4ee8858abac15cdbe0
`66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6`	affected	< f88fcb1d7d961b4b402d675109726f94db87571c

Linux

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`5.19`	affected	—
`0`	unaffected	< 5.19
`6.1.39`	unaffected	≤ 6.1.*
`6.4.4`	unaffected	≤ 6.4.*
`6.5`	unaffected	≤ *

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

No data.

Vendor	Product	Confidence	Versions
Linux	Linux Kernel	—	—

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-59949	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset() After blamed commit, we must be more careful about using skb_transport_offset(), as reminded us by syzbot: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.1.30-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023 Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet RIP: 0010:skb_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 [inline] RIP: 0010:skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline] RIP: 0010:perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14 Code: 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 3b 84 24 c0 00 00 00 0f 85 4e 04 00 00 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc e8 56 22 01 fd <0f> 0b e9 f6 fc ff ff 89 f9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 86 f9 ff RSP: 0018:ffffc900002bf700 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff8485d8ca RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: ffff888100914280 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ffff RDI: 000000000000ffff RBP: ffffc900002bf818 R08: ffffffff8485d5b6 R09: fffffbfff0f8fb5e R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff110217d8f67 R13: ffff88810bec7b3a R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f96cf6d52f0 CR3: 000000012224c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> [<ffffffff84715e35>] trace_net_dev_start_xmit include/trace/events/net.h:14 [inline] [<ffffffff84715e35>] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3643 [inline] [<ffffffff84715e35>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x705/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660 [<ffffffff8471a232>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x16b2/0x3370 net/core/dev.c:4324 [<ffffffff85416493>] dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3030 [inline] [<ffffffff85416493>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x3f3/0x680 net/batman-adv/send.c:108 [<ffffffff85416744>] batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127 [<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:393 [inline] [<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:421 [inline] [<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x69a/0x840 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1701 [<ffffffff8151023c>] process_one_work+0x8ac/0x1170 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 [<ffffffff81511938>] worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2436

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00013.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58f9e88eb247263c74383b4ee8858abac15cdbe0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ced61418f46993d571385812bafed3a7d4ab6918
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f88fcb1d7d961b4b402d675109726f94db87571c
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091642-CVE-2023-53312-a16b@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53312
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53312

History

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-401
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091642-CVE-2023-53312-a16b@gregkh/T https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53312 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53312
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}` threat_severity `Moderate`

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset() After blamed commit, we must be more careful about using skb_transport_offset(), as reminded us by syzbot: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.1.30-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023 Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet RIP: 0010:skb_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 [inline] RIP: 0010:skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline] RIP: 0010:perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14 Code: 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 3b 84 24 c0 00 00 00 0f 85 4e 04 00 00 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc e8 56 22 01 fd <0f> 0b e9 f6 fc ff ff 89 f9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 86 f9 ff RSP: 0018:ffffc900002bf700 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff8485d8ca RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: ffff888100914280 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ffff RDI: 000000000000ffff RBP: ffffc900002bf818 R08: ffffffff8485d5b6 R09: fffffbfff0f8fb5e R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff110217d8f67 R13: ffff88810bec7b3a R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f96cf6d52f0 CR3: 000000012224c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> [<ffffffff84715e35>] trace_net_dev_start_xmit include/trace/events/net.h:14 [inline] [<ffffffff84715e35>] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3643 [inline] [<ffffffff84715e35>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x705/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660 [<ffffffff8471a232>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x16b2/0x3370 net/core/dev.c:4324 [<ffffffff85416493>] dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3030 [inline] [<ffffffff85416493>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x3f3/0x680 net/batman-adv/send.c:108 [<ffffffff85416744>] batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127 [<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:393 [inline] [<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:421 [inline] [<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x69a/0x840 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1701 [<ffffffff8151023c>] process_one_work+0x8ac/0x1170 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 [<ffffffff81511938>] worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
Title		net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset()
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58f9e88eb247263c74383b4ee8858abac15cdbe0 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ced61418f46993d571385812bafed3a7d4ab6918 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f88fcb1d7d961b4b402d675109726f94db87571c

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Linux Linux Kernel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2025-09-16T16:11:49.832Z

Updated: 2026-05-11T19:42:30.804Z

Reserved: 2025-09-16T16:08:59.562Z

Link: CVE-2023-53312

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-14T18:24:56.560Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2025-09-16T17:15:37.117

Modified: 2026-01-14T19:16:24.430

Link: CVE-2023-53312

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-09-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-53312 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-09-17T10:04:23Z

Weaknesses

CWE-401

Tracking

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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