---
id: CVE-2023-53107
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  veth: Fix use after free in XDP_REDIRECT

  Commit 718a18a0c8a6 ("veth: Rework veth_xdp_rcv_skb in order
  to accept non-linear skb") introduced a bug where it tried to
  use…
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  veth: Fix use after free in XDP_REDIRECT

  Commit 718a18a0c8a6 ("veth: Rework veth_xdp_rcv_skb in order
  to accept non-linear skb") introduced a bug where it tried to
  use…
severity: high
cvss: 7.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-416
vendor: linux
product: linux_kernel
affected:
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.18, < 6.1.21'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.2.8'
  - linux_kernel = 6.3
patched:
  - linux_kernel 6.2.8
published: '2025-05-02'
updated: '2026-10-15'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-15T22:17:37.797'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53107'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e755b56896df48b0fae0db275e148f8d8aa7d6f'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/717d20710596b5b26595ede454d1105fa176f4a4'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c10131803e45269ddc6c817f19ed649110f3cae'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00204
epssPercentile: 0.10308
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-10-15T21:33:51.846370Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-10-15T22:48:25.390Z'
---

## Overview

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

veth: Fix use after free in XDP_REDIRECT

Commit 718a18a0c8a6 ("veth: Rework veth_xdp_rcv_skb in order
to accept non-linear skb") introduced a bug where it tried to
use pskb_expand_head() if the headroom was less than
XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM.  This however uses kmalloc to expand the head,
which will later allow consume_skb() to free the skb while is it still
in use by AF_XDP.

Previously if the headroom was less than XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM we
continued on to allocate a new skb from pages so this restores that
behavior.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __xsk_rcv+0x18d/0x2c0
Read of size 78 at addr ffff888976250154 by task napi/iconduit-g/148640

CPU: 5 PID: 148640 Comm: napi/iconduit-g Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           O       6.1.4-cloudflare-kasan-2023.1.2 #1
Hardware name: Quanta Computer Inc. QuantaPlex T41S-2U/S2S-MB, BIOS S2S_3B10.03 06/21/2018
Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
  print_report+0x170/0x473
  ? __xsk_rcv+0x18d/0x2c0
  kasan_report+0xad/0x130
  ? __xsk_rcv+0x18d/0x2c0
  kasan_check_range+0x149/0x1a0
  memcpy+0x20/0x60
  __xsk_rcv+0x18d/0x2c0
  __xsk_map_redirect+0x1f3/0x490
  ? veth_xdp_rcv_skb+0x89c/0x1ba0 [veth]
  xdp_do_redirect+0x5ca/0xd60
  veth_xdp_rcv_skb+0x935/0x1ba0 [veth]
  ? __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x671/0x920
  ? veth_xdp+0x670/0x670 [veth]
  veth_xdp_rcv+0x304/0xa20 [veth]
  ? do_xdp_generic+0x150/0x150
  ? veth_xdp_rcv_one+0xde0/0xde0 [veth]
  ? _raw_spin_lock_bh+0xe0/0xe0
  ? newidle_balance+0x887/0xe30
  ? __perf_event_task_sched_in+0xdb/0x800
  veth_poll+0x139/0x571 [veth]
  ? veth_xdp_rcv+0xa20/0xa20 [veth]
  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x39/0x70
  ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x17e/0x7d0
  ? __switch_to+0x5cf/0x1070
  ? __schedule+0x95b/0x2640
  ? io_schedule_timeout+0x160/0x160
  __napi_poll+0xa1/0x440
  napi_threaded_poll+0x3d1/0x460
  ? __napi_poll+0x440/0x440
  ? __kthread_parkme+0xc6/0x1f0
  ? __napi_poll+0x440/0x440
  kthread+0x2a2/0x340
  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
  </TASK>

Freed by task 148640:
  kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x50
  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
  kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x40
  ____kasan_slab_free+0x169/0x1d0
  slab_free_freelist_hook+0xd2/0x190
  __kmem_cache_free+0x1a1/0x2f0
  skb_release_data+0x449/0x600
  consume_skb+0x9f/0x1c0
  veth_xdp_rcv_skb+0x89c/0x1ba0 [veth]
  veth_xdp_rcv+0x304/0xa20 [veth]
  veth_poll+0x139/0x571 [veth]
  __napi_poll+0xa1/0x440
  napi_threaded_poll+0x3d1/0x460
  kthread+0x2a2/0x340
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888976250000
  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 340 bytes inside of
  2048-byte region [ffff888976250000, ffff888976250800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:00000000ae18262a refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x976250
head:00000000ae18262a order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x2ffff800010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)
raw: 002ffff800010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff88810004cf00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 00000002ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff888976250000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
  ffff888976250080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff888976250100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                  ^
  ffff888976250180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
  ffff888976250200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

## Affected

- `linux_kernel >= 5.18, < 6.1.21`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.2.8`
- `linux_kernel = 6.3`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `linux_kernel 6.2.8`