{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52999 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-52999 is a high-severity use after free 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-2023-52999 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-52999 is a high-severity use after free 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-2023-52999 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-2023-52999/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52999/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-52999","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52999/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-52999","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-52999","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52999","GHSA-x444-83wh-35rx","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52999"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel network namespace registration error path allows local attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: fix UaF in netns ops registration error path\n\nIf net_assign_generic() fails, the current error path in ops_init() tries\nto clear the gen pointer slot. Anyway, in such error path, the gen pointer\nitself has not been modified yet, and the existing and accessed one is\nsmaller than the accessed index, causing an out-of-bounds error:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ops_init+0x2de/0x320\n Write of size 8 at addr ffff888109124978 by task modprobe/1018\n\n CPU: 2 PID: 1018 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2.mptcp_ae5ac65fbed5+ #1641\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  dump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x9f\n  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x86/0x2b5\n  print_report+0x11b/0x1fb\n  kasan_report+0x87/0xc0\n  ops_init+0x2de/0x320\n  register_pernet_operations+0x2e4/0x750\n  register_pernet_subsys+0x24/0x40\n  tcf_register_action+0x9f/0x560\n  do_one_initcall+0xf9/0x570\n  do_init_module+0x190/0x650\n  load_module+0x1fa5/0x23c0\n  __do_sys_finit_module+0x10d/0x1b0\n  do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n RIP: 0033:0x7f42518f778d\n Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48\n       89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff\n       ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d cb 56 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48\n RSP: 002b:00007fff96869688 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139\n RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005568ef7f7c90 RCX: 00007f42518f778d\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00005568ef41d796 RDI: 0000000000000003\n RBP: 00005568ef41d796 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\n R13: 00005568ef7f7d30 R14: 0000000000040000 R15: 0000000000000000\n  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThis change addresses the issue by skipping the gen pointer\nde-reference in the mentioned error-path.\n\nFound by code inspection and verified with explicit error injection\non a kasan-enabled kernel.","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: fix UaF in netns ops registration error path","id":"CVE-2023-52999","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"netlink: prevent potential spectre v1 gadgets","id":"CVE-2023-53000"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net: fec: Use page_pool_put_full_page when freeing rx buffers","id":"CVE-2023-52998"},"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":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel network namespace registration error path allows local attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52999/"}