{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52986 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-52986 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Mar 2025. 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-2023-52986 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-52986 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Mar 2025. 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-2023-52986 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-2023-52986/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52986/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-52986","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52986/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-52986","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-52986","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52986","GHSA-3m27-46p7-w7mh","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52986"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel infinite recursion and denial of service by cloning a TCP listener socket linked to a sockmap with specific BPF programs attached.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"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-674","name":"Uncontrolled Recursion"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, sockmap: Check for any of tcp_bpf_prots when cloning a listener\n\nA listening socket linked to a sockmap has its sk_prot overridden. It\npoints to one of the struct proto variants in tcp_bpf_prots. The variant\ndepends on the socket's family and which sockmap programs are attached.\n\nA child socket cloned from a TCP listener initially inherits their sk_prot.\nBut before cloning is finished, we restore the child's proto to the\nlistener's original non-tcp_bpf_prots one. This happens in\ntcp_create_openreq_child -\u003e tcp_bpf_clone.\n\nToday, in tcp_bpf_clone we detect if the child's proto should be restored\nby checking only for the TCP_BPF_BASE proto variant. This is not\ncorrect. The sk_prot of listening socket linked to a sockmap can point to\nto any variant in tcp_bpf_prots.\n\nIf the listeners sk_prot happens to be not the TCP_BPF_BASE variant, then\nthe child socket unintentionally is left if the inherited sk_prot by\ntcp_bpf_clone.\n\nThis leads to issues like infinite recursion on close [1], because the\nchild state is otherwise not set up for use with tcp_bpf_prot operations.\n\nAdjust the check in tcp_bpf_clone to detect all of tcp_bpf_prots variants.\n\nNote that it wouldn't be sufficient to check the socket state when\noverriding the sk_prot in tcp_bpf_update_proto in order to always use the\nTCP_BPF_BASE variant for listening sockets. Since commit\nb8b8315e39ff (\"bpf, sockmap: Remove unhash handler for BPF sockmap usage\")\nit is possible for a socket to transition to TCP_LISTEN state while already\nlinked to a sockmap, e.g. connect() -\u003e insert into map -\u003e\nconnect(AF_UNSPEC) -\u003e listen().\n\n[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000073b14905ef2e7401@google.com/","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":"bpf, sockmap: Check for any of tcp_bpf_prots when cloning a listener","id":"CVE-2023-52986","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"ASoC: SOF: ipc4-mtrace: prevent underflow in sof_ipc4_priority_mask_dfs_write()","id":"CVE-2023-52987"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"arm64: dts: imx8mm-verdin: Do not power down eth-phy","id":"CVE-2023-52985"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-03-27","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":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel infinite recursion and denial of service by cloning a TCP listener socket linked to a sockmap with specific BPF programs attached.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52986/"}