CVE-2023-53566CWE-476

CVE-2023-53566

High · published October 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00150 · 3.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-10-04T20:15Z
Affected products (10)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.10.166, < 5.10.1815.10.181
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.15.91, < 5.15.1135.15.113
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.1.9, < 6.1.306.1.30
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2.1, < 6.3.46.3.4
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References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:17Z
    netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion
    cvelistv5