CVE-2023-54243

linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-fr...

CVE-2023-54243 is fixed in 20 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2023-138, released March 20, 2023. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0015
4th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free We are not allowed to return an error at this point. Looking at the code it looks like ret is always 0 at this point, but its not. t = find_table_lock(net, repl->name, &ret, &ebt_mutex); ... this can return a valid table, with ret != 0. This bug causes update of table->private with the new blob, but then frees the blob right away in the caller. Syzbot report: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in __ebt_unregister_table+0xc00/0xcd0 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1168 Read of size 4 at addr ffffc90005425000 by task kworker/u4:4/74 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net Call Trace: kasan_report+0xbf/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:517 __ebt_unregister_table+0xc00/0xcd0 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1168 ebt_unregister_table+0x35/0x40 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1372 ops_exit_list+0xb0/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:169 cleanup_net+0x4ee/0xb10 net/core/net_namespace.c:613 ... ip(6)tables appears to be ok (ret should be 0 at this point) but make this more obvious.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
bpftool-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-headers · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-libbpf · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-livepatch-6.1.19-30.43 · amzn 2023 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-tools · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-tools-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.1.20-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54243 Dec 30, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.1.20-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54243 Dec 30, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.1.20-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54243 Dec 30, 2025
perf · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
python3-perf · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
python3-perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023

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