CVE-2023-53566

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53566
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53566.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53566
Downstream
Published
2025-10-04T15:17:08Z
Modified
2025-10-16T19:58:18.651415Z
Summary
netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion
Details

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

netfilter: nftsetrbtree: fix null deref on element insertion

There is no guarantee that rbprev() will not return NULL in nftrbtreegcelem():

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] nftaddsetelem+0x14b0/0x2990 nftables_newsetelem+0x528/0xb30

Furthermore, there is a possible use-after-free while iterating, 'node' can be free'd so we need to cache the next value to use.

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
7ab87a326f20c52ff4d9972052d085be951c704b
Fixed
b76db53ee8802ee5683f8cb401d7e2ec6f9b3d56
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
181859bdfb9734aca449512fccaee4cacce64aed
Fixed
899aa5638568abf5d69de7a7bb95e4615157375b
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4aacf3d78424293e318c616016865380b37b9cc5
Fixed
3fa13203b6d90cc3a33af47b058739f92ab82eef
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2bf1435fa19d2c58054391b3bba40d5510a5758c
Fixed
ec5caa765f7f6960011c919c9aeb1467940421f6
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
318cb24a4c3fce8140afaf84e4d45fcb76fb280b
Fixed
a836be60a3aabcedcd9c79f545d409ace1f20ba6
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c9e6978e2725a7d4b6cd23b2facd3f11422c0643
Fixed
a337706c1fb35aac3f26b48aca80421bdbe1d33a
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c9e6978e2725a7d4b6cd23b2facd3f11422c0643
Fixed
61ae320a29b0540c16931816299eb86bf2b66c08

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.10.166
v5.10.167
v5.10.168
v5.10.169
v5.10.170
v5.10.171
v5.10.172
v5.10.173
v5.10.174
v5.10.175
v5.10.176
v5.10.177
v5.10.178
v5.10.179
v5.10.180
v5.15.100
v5.15.101
v5.15.102
v5.15.103
v5.15.104
v5.15.105
v5.15.106
v5.15.107
v5.15.108
v5.15.109
v5.15.110
v5.15.111
v5.15.112
v5.15.91
v5.15.92
v5.15.93
v5.15.94
v5.15.95
v5.15.96
v5.15.97
v5.15.98
v5.15.99

v6.*

v6.1.10
v6.1.11
v6.1.12
v6.1.13
v6.1.14
v6.1.15
v6.1.16
v6.1.17
v6.1.18
v6.1.19
v6.1.20
v6.1.21
v6.1.22
v6.1.23
v6.1.24
v6.1.25
v6.1.26
v6.1.27
v6.1.28
v6.1.29
v6.1.9
v6.2
v6.2-rc5
v6.2-rc6
v6.2-rc7
v6.2-rc8
v6.3
v6.3-rc1
v6.3-rc2
v6.3-rc3
v6.3-rc4
v6.3-rc5
v6.3-rc6
v6.3-rc7
v6.3.1
v6.3.2
v6.3.3
v6.4-rc1

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.10.181
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.113
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.30
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.3.4