CVE-2023-53535

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

04/10/2025

Last modified:

23/03/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmgenet: Add a check for oversized packets Occasionnaly we may get oversized packets from the hardware which exceed the nomimal 2KiB buffer size we allocate SKBs with. Add an early check which drops the packet to avoid invoking skb_over_panic() and move on to processing the next packet.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.15 (including)	4.14.308 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.276 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.235 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.173 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.99 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.2.3 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2023-53535

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools