CVE-2023-53342

net: marvell: prestera: fix handling IPv4 routes with nhid

Medium · published September 17, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: marvell: prestera: fix handling IPv4 routes with nhid

Fix handling IPv4 routes referencing a nexthop via its id by replacing

calls to fib_info_nh() with fib_info_nhc().

Trying to add an IPv4 route referencing a nextop via nhid:

$ ip link set up swp5

$ ip a a 10.0.0.1/24 dev swp5

$ ip nexthop add dev swp5 id 20 via 10.0.0.2

$ ip route add 10.0.1.0/24 nhid 20

triggers warnings when trying to handle the route:

[ 528.805763] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 528.810437] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 53 at include/net/nexthop.h:468 __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]

[ 528.820434] Modules linked in: prestera_pci act_gact act_police sch_ingress cls_u32 cls_flower prestera arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_led(O) arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_cpld(O) [last unloaded: prestera_pci]

[ 528.837485] CPU: 3 PID: 53 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G O 6.4.5 #1

[ 528.845178] Hardware name: delta,tn48m-dn (DT)

[ 528.849641] Workqueue: prestera_ordered __prestera_router_fib_event_work [prestera]

[ 528.857352] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

[ 528.864347] pc : __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]

[ 528.870135] lr : prestera_k_arb_fib_evt+0xb20/0xd50 [prestera]

[ 528.876007] sp : ffff80000b20bc90

[ 528.879336] x29: ffff80000b20bc90 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0001374d3a48

[ 528.886510] x26: ffff000105604000 x25: ffff000134af8a28 x24: ffff0001374d3800

[ 528.893683] x23: ffff000101c89148 x22: ffff000101c89000 x21: ffff000101c89200

[ 528.900855] x20: ffff00013641fda0 x19: ffff800009d01088 x18: 0000000000000059

[ 528.908027] x17: 0000000000000277 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000

[ 528.915198] x14: 0000000000000003 x13: 00000000000fe400 x12: 0000000000000000

[ 528.922371] x11: 0000000000000002 x10: 0000000000000aa0 x9 : ffff8000013d2020

[ 528.929543] x8 : 0000000000000018 x7 : 000000007b1703f8 x6 : 000000001ca72f86

[ 528.936715] x5 : 0000000033399ea7 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff0001374d3acc

[ 528.943886] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff00010200de00 x0 : ffff000134ae3f80

[ 528.951058] Call trace:

[ 528.953516] __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]

[ 528.958952] __prestera_router_fib_event_work+0x100/0x158 [prestera]

[ 528.965348] process_one_work+0x208/0x488

[ 528.969387] worker_thread+0x4c/0x430

[ 528.973068] kthread+0x120/0x138

[ 528.976313] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

[ 528.979909] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[ 528.984998] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 528.989645] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 53 at include/net/nexthop.h:468 __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]

[ 528.999628] Modules linked in: prestera_pci act_gact act_police sch_ingress cls_u32 cls_flower prestera arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_led(O) arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_cpld(O) [last unloaded: prestera_pci]

[ 529.016676] CPU: 3 PID: 53 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G W O 6.4.5 #1

[ 529.024368] Hardware name: delta,tn48m-dn (DT)

[ 529.028830] Workqueue: prestera_ordered __prestera_router_fib_event_work [prestera]

[ 529.036539] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

[ 529.043533] pc : __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]

[ 529.049318] lr : __prestera_k_arb_fc_apply+0x280/0x2f8 [prestera]

[ 529.055452] sp : ffff80000b20bc60

[ 529.058781] x29: ffff80000b20bc60 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0001374d3a48

[ 529.065953] x26: ffff000105604000 x25: ffff000134af8a28 x24: ffff0001374d3800

[ 529.073126] x23: ffff000101c89148 x22: ffff000101c89148 x21: ffff00013641fda0

[ 529.080299] x20: ffff000101c89000 x19: ffff000101c89020 x18: 0000000000000059

[ 529.087471] x17: 0000000000000277 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000

[ 529.094642] x14: 0000000000000003 x13: 00000000000fe400 x12: 0000000000000000

[ 529.101814] x11: 0000000000000002 x10: 0000000000000aa0 x9 : ffff8000013cee80

[ 529.108985] x8 : 0000000000000018 x7 : 000000007b1703f8 x6

---truncated---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00200 · 9.3th percentile
Published
2025-09-17T14:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 14:56Z
    net: marvell: prestera: fix handling IPv4 routes with nhid
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