CVE-2023-54243 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-54243

netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free We are not allowed to return an error at this point. Looking at the code it looks like ret is always 0 at this point, but its not. t = find_table_lock(net, repl->name, &ret, &ebt_mutex); ... this can return a valid table, with ret != 0. This bug causes update of table->private with the new blob, but then frees the blob right away in the caller. Syzbot report: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in __ebt_unregister_table+0xc00/0xcd0 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1168 Read of size 4 at addr ffffc90005425000 by task kworker/u4:4/74 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net Call Trace: kasan_report+0xbf/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:517 __ebt_unregister_table+0xc00/0xcd0 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1168 ebt_unregister_table+0x35/0x40 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1372 ops_exit_list+0xb0/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:169 cleanup_net+0x4ee/0xb10 net/core/net_namespace.c:613 ... ip(6)tables appears to be ok (ret should be 0 at this point) but make this more obvious.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
c58dd2dd443c26d856a168db108a0cd11c285bf3, a3bc0f8ea439762aa62d40a295157410498cbea7, 8ed40c122919cd79bc3c059e5864e5e7d9d455f0, c5e4ef499cfc78de45a4f01b8c557b5964d77c53, f34728610b2a8c7b9864f9404f2884c17f6fca5c, 8b5740915a9faa8b1fa9166193a33e2a9ae30ec6, 3.2.60, 3.4.91, 3.10.41, 3.12.21, 3.14.5, 3.15, 0, 5.10.173, 5.15.100, 6.1.18, 6.2.5, 6.3

Timeline

Official Publish: December 30th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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