{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54037 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-54037 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 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-2023-54037 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-54037 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 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-2023-54037 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. 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-2023-54037/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54037/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-54037","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54037/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-54037","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-54037","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54037","GHSA-fxpr-g6q4-mmqw","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54037"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A local attacker with high privileges can cause a kernel crash by triggering a NULL pointer dereference in the Intel ice driver during device reload.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nice: prevent NULL pointer deref during reload\n\nCalling ethtool during reload can lead to call trace, because VSI isn't\nconfigured for some time, but netdev is alive.\n\nTo fix it add rtnl lock for VSI deconfig and config. Set ::num_q_vectors\nto 0 after freeing and add a check for ::tx/rx_rings in ring related\nethtool ops.\n\nAdd proper unroll of filters in ice_start_eth().\n\nReproduction:\n$watch -n 0.1 -d 'ethtool -g enp24s0f0np0'\n$devlink dev reload pci/0000:18:00.0 action driver_reinit\n\nCall trace before fix:\n[66303.926205] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n[66303.926259] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n[66303.926286] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n[66303.926311] PGD 0 P4D 0\n[66303.926332] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n[66303.926358] CPU: 4 PID: 933821 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE      6.4.0-rc5+ #1\n[66303.926400] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.00.01.0014.070920180847 07/09/2018\n[66303.926446] RIP: 0010:ice_get_ringparam+0x22/0x50 [ice]\n[66303.926649] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 87 c0 09 00 00 c7 46 04 e0 1f 00 00 c7 46 10 e0 1f 00 00 48 8b 50 20 \u003c48\u003e 8b 12 0f b7 52 3a 89 56 14 48 8b 40 28 48 8b 00 0f b7 40 58 48\n[66303.926722] RSP: 0018:ffffad40472f39c8 EFLAGS: 00010246\n[66303.926749] RAX: ffff98a8ada05828 RBX: ffff98a8c46dd060 RCX: ffffad40472f3b48\n[66303.926781] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff98a8c46dd068 RDI: ffff98a8b23c4000\n[66303.926811] RBP: ffffad40472f3b48 R08: 00000000000337b0 R09: 0000000000000000\n[66303.926843] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffff98a8b23c4000\n[66303.926874] R13: ffff98a8c46dd060 R14: 000000000000000f R15: ffffad40472f3a50\n[66303.926906] FS:  00007f6397966740(0000) GS:ffff98b390900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[66303.926941] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[66303.926967] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000011ac20002 CR4: 00000000007706e0\n[66303.926999] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n[66303.927029] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n[66303.927060] PKRU: 55555554\n[66303.927075] Call Trace:\n[66303.927094]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[66303.927111]  ? __die+0x23/0x70\n[66303.927140]  ? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4e0\n[66303.927176]  ? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x180\n[66303.927209]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n[66303.927244]  ? ice_get_ringparam+0x22/0x50 [ice]\n[66303.927433]  rings_prepare_data+0x62/0x80\n[66303.927469]  ethnl_default_doit+0xe2/0x350\n[66303.927501]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xe3/0x140\n[66303.927538]  genl_rcv_msg+0x1b1/0x2c0\n[66303.927561]  ? __pfx_ethnl_default_doit+0x10/0x10\n[66303.927590]  ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10\n[66303.927615]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x58/0x110\n[66303.927644]  genl_rcv+0x28/0x40\n[66303.927665]  netlink_unicast+0x19e/0x290\n[66303.927691]  netlink_sendmsg+0x254/0x4d0\n[66303.927717]  sock_sendmsg+0x93/0xa0\n[66303.927743]  __sys_sendto+0x126/0x170\n[66303.927780]  __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\n[66303.928593]  do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x90\n[66303.929370]  ? __count_memcg_events+0x60/0xa0\n[66303.930146]  ? count_memcg_events.constprop.0+0x1a/0x30\n[66303.930920]  ? handle_mm_fault+0x9e/0x350\n[66303.931688]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x258/0x740\n[66303.932452]  ? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x180\n[66303.933193]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc","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":"ice: prevent NULL pointer deref during reload","id":"CVE-2023-54037","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Bluetooth: hci_conn: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL when there is no link","id":"CVE-2023-54038"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"wifi: rtl8xxxu: Fix memory leaks with RTL8723BU, RTL8192EU","id":"CVE-2023-54036"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-24","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker with high privileges can cause a kernel crash by triggering a NULL pointer dereference in the Intel ice driver during device reload.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54037/"}