CVE-2023-53432 (GCVE-0-2023-53432)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:23
VLAI?
Title
firewire: net: fix use after free in fwnet_finish_incoming_packet()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firewire: net: fix use after free in fwnet_finish_incoming_packet() The netif_rx() function frees the skb so we can't dereference it to save the skb->len.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: c76acec6d55107b652a37c90b36c00bc8b04dabb , < 2ea70379e4f4efa95c9daa7f3f9bdd4d40aec927 (git)
Affected: c76acec6d55107b652a37c90b36c00bc8b04dabb , < 9040adc38cf6bfbb77034d558ac2c52f70d840ac (git)
Affected: c76acec6d55107b652a37c90b36c00bc8b04dabb , < 9860921ab4521252dc39bb21b9c936bd09a00982 (git)
Affected: c76acec6d55107b652a37c90b36c00bc8b04dabb , < 3ff256751a2853e1ffaa36958ff933ccc98c6cb5 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.31
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.31 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.128 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.47 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.12 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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