Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53566

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-10-04 15:17:08
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:29:34
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

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 freed so we need to cache the next value to use.