{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52487 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-52487 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-52487 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-52487 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52487 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52487/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52487/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-52487","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52487/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-52487","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-52487","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52487","GHSA-99h3-vvc6-h7gh","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52487"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's mlx5e driver can cause a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix peer flow lists handling\n\nThe cited change refactored mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow() to only clear DUP\nflag when list of peer flows has become empty. However, if any concurrent\nuser holds a reference to a peer flow (for example, the neighbor update\nworkqueue task is updating peer flow's parent encap entry concurrently),\nthen the flow will not be removed from the peer list and, consecutively,\nDUP flag will remain set. Since mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow() calls\nmlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow() for every possible peer index the algorithm\nwill try to remove the flow from eswitch instances that it has never peered\nwith causing either NULL pointer dereference when trying to remove the flow\npeer list head of peer_index that was never initialized or a warning if the\nlist debug config is enabled[0].\n\nFix the issue by always removing the peer flow from the list even when not\nreleasing the last reference to it.\n\n[0]:\n\n[ 3102.985806] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 3102.986223] list_del corruption, ffff888139110698-\u003enext is NULL\n[ 3102.986757] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 22109 at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0\n[ 3102.987561] Modules linked in: act_ct nf_flow_table bonding act_tunnel_key act_mirred act_skbedit vxlan cls_matchall nfnetlink_cttimeout act_gact cls_flower sch_ingress mlx5_vdpa vringh vhost_iotlb vdpa openvswitch nsh xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat xt_addrtype xt_conntrack nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcg\nss oid_registry overlay rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5_core [last unloaded: bonding]\n[ 3102.991113] CPU: 2 PID: 22109 Comm: revalidator28 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc6+ #3\n[ 3102.991695] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[ 3102.992605] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0\n[ 3102.993122] Code: 39 c2 74 56 48 8b 32 48 39 fe 75 62 48 8b 51 08 48 39 f2 75 73 b8 01 00 00 00 c3 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 48 fd 0a 82 e8 41 0b ad ff \u003c0f\u003e 0b 31 c0 c3 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 70 fd 0a 82 e8 2d 0b ad ff 0f 0b\n[ 3102.994615] RSP: 0018:ffff8881383e7710 EFLAGS: 00010286\n[ 3102.995078] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[ 3102.995670] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff88885f89b640 RDI: ffff88885f89b640\n[ 3102.997188] DEL flow 00000000be367878 on port 0\n[ 3102.998594] RBP: dead000000000122 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffffdfff\n[ 3102.999604] R10: 0000000000000008 R11: ffff8881383e7598 R12: dead000000000100\n[ 3103.000198] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff888139110000 R15: ffff888101901240\n[ 3103.000790] FS:  00007f424cde4700(0000) GS:ffff88885f880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 3103.001486] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 3103.001986] CR2: 00007fd42e8dcb70 CR3: 000000011e68a003 CR4: 0000000000370ea0\n[ 3103.002596] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n[ 3103.003190] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n[ 3103.003787] Call Trace:\n[ 3103.004055]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 3103.004297]  ? __warn+0x7d/0x130\n[ 3103.004623]  ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0\n[ 3103.005094]  ? report_bug+0xf1/0x1c0\n[ 3103.005439]  ? console_unlock+0x4a/0xd0\n[ 3103.005806]  ? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70\n[ 3103.006149]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60\n[ 3103.006531]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20\n[ 3103.007430]  ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0\n[ 3103.007910]  mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow+0xcf/0x240 [mlx5_core]\n[ 3103.008463]  mlx5e_tc_del_flow+0x46/0x270 [mlx5_core]\n[ 3103.008944]  mlx5e_flow_put+0x26/0x50 [mlx5_core]\n[ 3103.009401]  mlx5e_delete_flower+0x25f/0x380 [mlx5_core]\n[ 3103.009901]  tc_setup_cb_destroy+0xab/0x180\n[ 3103.010292]  fl_hw_destroy_filter+0x99/0xc0 [cls_flower]\n[ 3103.010779]  __fl_delete+0x2d4/0x2f0 [cls_flower]\n[ 3103.0\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net/mlx5e: Fix peer flow lists handling","id":"CVE-2023-52487","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"serial: sc16is7xx: convert from _raw_ to _noinc_ regmap functions for FIFO","id":"CVE-2023-52488"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"drm: Don't unref the same fb many times by mistake due to deadlock handling","id":"CVE-2023-52486"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-02-29","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's mlx5e driver can cause a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52487/"}