CVE-2023-53539

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53539
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53539.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53539
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-04T15:16:49.379Z
Modified
2025-11-28T02:34:17.438048Z
Summary
RDMA/rxe: Fix incomplete state save in rxe_requester
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/rxe: Fix incomplete state save in rxe_requester

If a send packet is dropped by the IP layer in rxerequester() the call to rxexmit_packet() can fail with err == -EAGAIN. To recover, the state of the wqe is restored to the state before the packet was sent so it can be resent. However, the routines that save and restore the state miss a significnt part of the variable state in the wqe, the dma struct which is used to process through the sge table. And, the state is not saved before the packet is built which modifies the dma struct.

Under heavy stress testing with many QPs on a fast node sending large messages to a slow node dropped packets are observed and the resent packets are corrupted because the dma struct was not restored. This patch fixes this behavior and allows the test cases to succeed.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53539.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
3050b99850247695cb07a5c15265afcc08bcf400
Fixed
70518f3aaf5a059b691867d7d2d46b999319656a
Fixed
2f2a6422287fe29f9343247d77b645100ece0652
Fixed
255c0e60e1d16874fc151358d94bc8df661600dd
Fixed
5d122db2ff80cd2aed4dcd630befb56b51ddf947

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.8.0
Fixed
6.1.53
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.4.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.5.0
Fixed
6.5.3