# CVE-2023-52580: net/core: Fix ETH_P_1588 flow dissector
> A crafted PTP Ethernet frame triggers an integer overflow in the flow dissector, causing a kernel crash and denial of service.
- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 2 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2023-52580, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52580, GHSA-mjrq-f967-qfp4, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52580
## What is CVE-2023-52580?
CVE-2023-52580 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
### Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/core: Fix ETH_P_1588 flow dissector
When a PTP ethernet raw frame with a size of more than 256 bytes followed
by a 0xff pattern is sent to __skb_flow_dissect, nhoff value calculation
is wrong. For example: hdr->message_length takes the wrong value (0xffff)
and it does not replicate real header length. In this case, 'nhoff' value
was overridden and the PTP header was badly dissected. This leads to a
kernel crash.
net/core: flow_dissector
net/core flow dissector nhoff = 0x0000000e
net/core flow dissector hdr->message_length = 0x0000ffff
net/core flow dissector nhoff = 0x0001000d (u16 overflow)
...
skb linear: 00000000: 00 a0 c9 00 00 00 00 a0 c9 00 00 00 88
skb frag: 00000000: f7 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
Using the size of the ptp_header struct will allow the corrected
calculation of the nhoff value.
net/core flow dissector nhoff = 0x0000000e
net/core flow dissector nhoff = 0x00000030 (sizeof ptp_header)
...
skb linear: 00000000: 00 a0 c9 00 00 00 00 a0 c9 00 00 00 88 f7 ff ff
skb linear: 00000010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
skb linear: 00000020: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
skb frag: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
Kernel trace:
[ 74.984279] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 74.989471] kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2440!
[ 74.995237] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 75.001098] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Tainted: G U 5.15.85-intel-ese-standard-lts #1
[ 75.011629] Hardware name: Intel Corporation A-Island (CPU:AlderLake)/A-Island (ID:06), BIOS SB_ADLP.01.01.00.01.03.008.D-6A9D9E73-dirty Mar 30 2023
[ 75.026507] RIP: 0010:eth_type_trans+0xd0/0x130
[ 75.031594] Code: 03 88 47 78 eb c7 8b 47 68 2b 47 6c 48 8b 97 c0 00 00 00 83 f8 01 7e 1b 48 85 d2 74 06 66 83 3a ff 74 09 b8 00 04 00 00 eb ab <0f> 0b b8 00 01 00 00 eb a2 48 85 ff 74 eb 48 8d 54 24 06 31 f6 b9
[ 75.052612] RSP: 0018:ffff9948c0228de0 EFLAGS: 00010297
[ 75.058473] RAX: 00000000000003f2 RBX: ffff8e47047dc300 RCX: 0000000000001003
[ 75.066462] RDX: ffff8e4e8c9ea040 RSI: ffff8e4704e0a000 RDI: ffff8e47047dc300
[ 75.074458] RBP: ffff8e4704e2acc0 R08: 00000000000003f3 R09: 0000000000000800
[ 75.082466] R10: 000000000000000d R11: ffff9948c0228dec R12: ffff8e4715e4e010
[ 75.090461] R13: ffff9948c0545018 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000800
[ 75.098464] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e4e8fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 75.107530] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 75.113982] CR2: 00007f5eb35934a0 CR3: 0000000150e0a002 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[ 75.121980] PKRU: 55555554
[ 75.125035] Call Trace:
[ 75.127792]
[ 75.130063] ? eth_get_headlen+0xa4/0xc0
[ 75.134472] igc_process_skb_fields+0xcd/0x150
[ 75.139461] igc_poll+0xc80/0x17b0
[ 75.143272] __napi_poll+0x27/0x170
[ 75.147192] net_rx_action+0x234/0x280
[ 75.151409] __do_softirq+0xef/0x2f4
[ 75.155424] irq_exit_rcu+0xc7/0x110
[ 75.159432] common_interrupt+0xb8/0xd0
[ 75.163748]
[ 75.166112]
[ 75.168473] asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
[ 75.173175] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xe2/0x350
[ 75.178749] Code: 85 c0 0f 8f 04 02 00 00 31 ff e8 39 6c 67 ff 45 84 ff 74 12 9c 58 f6 c4 02 0f 85 50 02 00 00 31 ff e8 52 b0 6d ff fb 45 85 f6 <0f> 88 b1 00 00 00 49 63 ce 4c 2b 2c 24 48 89 c8 48 6b d1 68 48 c1
[ 75.199757] RSP: 0018:ffff9948c013bea8 EFLAGS: 00000202
[ 75.205614] RAX: ffff8e4e8fb00000 RBX: ffffb948bfd23900 RCX: 000000000000001f
[ 75.213619] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff94206161 RDI: ffffffff94212e20
[ 75.221620] RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 000000117568973a R09: 0000000000000001
[ 75.229622] R10: 000000000000afc8 R11: ffff8e4e8fb29ce4 R12: ffffffff945ae980
[ 75.237628] R13: 000000117568973a R14: 0000000000000004 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 75.245635] ?
---truncated---
## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52580?
It affects 1 product.
Products: Linux kernel.
## How do I fix CVE-2023-52580?
Apply the vendor's patch.
## Is CVE-2023-52580 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52580 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents
```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-52580 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2023-52580 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52580 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52580/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52580/index.md)
```
## Sources
- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52580
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52580
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-52580
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