CVE-2023-52834 - CVE House
Back to Database
Status published Unknown CVE-2023-52834

atl1c: Work around the DMA RX overflow issue

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: atl1c: Work around the DMA RX overflow issue This is based on alx driver commit 881d0327db37 ("net: alx: Work around the DMA RX overflow issue"). The alx and atl1c drivers had RX overflow error which was why a custom allocator was created to avoid certain addresses. The simpler workaround then created for alx driver, but not for atl1c due to lack of tester. Instead of using a custom allocator, check the allocated skb address and use skb_reserve() to move away from problematic 0x...fc0 address. Tested on AR8131 on Acer 4540.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

THREAT MONITOR

Am I Vulnerable?

Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2023-52834

Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

More from Linux

View All →
CVE-2025-71315
drm/vkms: Convert to DRM's vblank timer
Unknown 0
CVE-2025-71314
drm/panthor: Recover from panthor_gpu_flush_caches() failures
Unknown 0
CVE-2025-71313
PCI: endpoint: Add missing NULL check for alloc_workqueue()
Unknown 0
CVE-2025-71312
fs/ntfs3: fix ntfs_mount_options leak in ntfs_fill_super()
Unknown 0
CVE-2025-71311
fs/ntfs3: Initialize new folios before use
Unknown 0

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
43250ddd75a35d1f7926d989a10fefd30c37eaa7, 2.6.29, 0, 5.15.140, 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3, 6.7

Timeline

Official Publish: May 21st, 2024
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.