Security Advisory

CVE-2023-52997

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-03-27 16:43:31
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:36:37
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in ip_metrics_convert() if (!type) continue; if (type > RTAX_MAX) return -EINVAL; ... metrics[type - 1] = val; @type being used as an array index, we need to prevent cpu speculation or risk leaking kernel memory content.