{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53023 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53023 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-2023-53023 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53023 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-2023-53023 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-2023-53023/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53023/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53023","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53023/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53023","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53023","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53023","GHSA-p7rv-2f34-8mwf","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53023"],"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 NFC","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel NFC subsystem allows local attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code by triggering a race condition during device detachment.","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: nfc: Fix use-after-free in local_cleanup()\n\nFix a use-after-free that occurs in kfree_skb() called from\nlocal_cleanup(). This could happen when killing nfc daemon (e.g. neard)\nafter detaching an nfc device.\nWhen detaching an nfc device, local_cleanup() called from\nnfc_llcp_unregister_device() frees local-\u003erx_pending and decreases\nlocal-\u003eref by kref_put() in nfc_llcp_local_put().\nIn the terminating process, nfc daemon releases all sockets and it leads\nto decreasing local-\u003eref. After the last release of local-\u003eref,\nlocal_cleanup() called from local_release() frees local-\u003erx_pending\nagain, which leads to the bug.\n\nSetting local-\u003erx_pending to NULL in local_cleanup() could prevent\nuse-after-free when local_cleanup() is called twice.\n\nFound by a modified version of syzkaller.\n\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kfree_skb()\n\nCall Trace:\ndump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:106)\nprint_address_description.constprop.0.cold (mm/kasan/report.c:306)\nkasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:189)\nkfree_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:955)\nlocal_cleanup (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:159)\nnfc_llcp_local_put.part.0 (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:172)\nnfc_llcp_local_put (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:181)\nllcp_sock_destruct (net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:959)\n__sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2133)\nsk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2181)\n__sk_free (net/core/sock.c:2192)\nsk_free (net/core/sock.c:2203)\nllcp_sock_release (net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:646)\n__sock_release (net/socket.c:650)\nsock_close (net/socket.c:1365)\n__fput (fs/file_table.c:306)\ntask_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:179)\nptrace_notify (kernel/signal.c:2354)\nsyscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare (kernel/entry/common.c:278)\nsyscall_exit_to_user_mode (kernel/entry/common.c:296)\ndo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:86)\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:106)\n\nAllocated by task 4719:\nkasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:45)\n__kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:325)\nslab_post_alloc_hook (mm/slab.h:766)\nkmem_cache_alloc_node (mm/slub.c:3497)\n__alloc_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:552)\npn533_recv_response (drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c:65)\n__usb_hcd_giveback_urb (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1671)\nusb_giveback_urb_bh (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1704)\ntasklet_action_common.isra.0 (kernel/softirq.c:797)\n__do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:571)\n\nFreed by task 1901:\nkasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:45)\nkasan_set_track (mm/kasan/common.c:52)\nkasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/genericdd.c:518)\n__kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:236)\nkmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:3809)\nkfree_skbmem (net/core/skbuff.c:874)\nkfree_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:931)\nlocal_cleanup (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:159)\nnfc_llcp_unregister_device (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:1617)\nnfc_unregister_device (net/nfc/core.c:1179)\npn53x_unregister_nfc (drivers/nfc/pn533/pn533.c:2846)\npn533_usb_disconnect (drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c:579)\nusb_unbind_interface (drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458)\ndevice_release_driver_internal (drivers/base/dd.c:1279)\nbus_remove_device (drivers/base/bus.c:529)\ndevice_del (drivers/base/core.c:3665)\nusb_disable_device (drivers/usb/core/message.c:1420)\nusb_disconnect (drivers/usb/core.c:2261)\nhub_event (drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833)\nprocess_one_work (arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 include/linux/jump_label.h:212 include/trace/events/workqueue.h:108 kernel/workqueue.c:2281)\nworker_thread (include/linux/list.h:282 kernel/workqueue.c:2423)\nkthread (kernel/kthread.c:319)\nret_from_fork (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:301)","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: nfc: Fix use-after-free in local_cleanup()","id":"CVE-2023-53023","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":7,"next":{"headline":"bpf: Fix pointer-leak due to insufficient speculative store bypass mitigation","id":"CVE-2023-53024"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net: enetc: avoid deadlock in enetc_tx_onestep_tstamp()","id":"CVE-2023-53022"},"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 in the Linux kernel NFC subsystem allows local attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code by triggering a race condition during device detachment.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53023/"}