Security Advisory

CVE-2023-52522

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-03-02 21:52:29
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:28:54
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fix possible store tearing in neigh_periodic_work() While looking at a related syzbot report involving neigh_periodic_work(), I found that I forgot to add an annotation when deleting an RCU protected item from a list. Readers use rcu_deference(*np), we need to use either rcu_assign_pointer() or WRITE_ONCE() on writer side to prevent store tearing. I use rcu_assign_pointer() to have lockdep support, this was the choice made in neigh_flush_dev().