Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-52796 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Security Account Manager (T1003.002); ranked at the 15th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-15 (Development Process, Standards, and Tools) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-59513
Vulnerability Data
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvlan: add ipvlan_route_v6_outbound() helper Inspired by syzbot reports using a stack of multiple ipvlan devices. Reduce stack size needed in ipvlan_process_v6_outbound() by moving the flowi6 struct used for the route…
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lookup in an non inlined helper. ipvlan_route_v6_outbound() needs 120 bytes on the stack, immediately reclaimed. Also make sure ipvlan_process_v4_outbound() is not inlined. We might also have to lower MAX_NEST_DEV, because only syzbot uses setups with more than four stacked devices. BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000e803ff8 (stack is ffffc9000e804000..ffffc9000e808000) stack guard page: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN CPU: 0 PID: 13442 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.1.52-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/09/2023 RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x4/0x2a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:188 Code: 48 01 c6 48 89 c7 e8 db 4e c1 03 31 c0 5d c3 cc 0f 0b eb 02 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff 5d c3 cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 55 48 89 e5 <41> 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 b0 01 48 85 f6 0f 84 a4 01 00 00 48 89 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e804000 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff817e5bf2 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff887c6568 RBP: ffffc9000e804000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff92001d0080c R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffff87e6b100 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007fd0c55826c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffc9000e803ff8 CR3: 0000000170ef7000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <#DF> </#DF> <TASK> [<ffffffff81f281d1>] __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/shadow.c:31 [<ffffffff817e5bf2>] instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:72 [inline] [<ffffffff817e5bf2>] _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline] [<ffffffff817e5bf2>] cpumask_test_cpu include/linux/cpumask.h:506 [inline] [<ffffffff817e5bf2>] cpu_online include/linux/cpumask.h:1092 [inline] [<ffffffff817e5bf2>] trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:24 [inline] [<ffffffff817e5bf2>] lock_acquire+0xe2/0x590 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5632 [<ffffffff8563221e>] rcu_lock_acquire+0x2e/0x40 include/linux/rcupdate.h:306 [<ffffffff8561464d>] rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:747 [inline] [<ffffffff8561464d>] ip6_pol_route+0x15d/0x1440 net/ipv6/route.c:2221 [<ffffffff85618120>] ip6_pol_route_output+0x50/0x80 net/ipv6/route.c:2606 [<ffffffff856f65b5>] pol_lookup_func include/net/ip6_fib.h:584 [inline] [<ffffffff856f65b5>] fib6_rule_lookup+0x265/0x620 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:116 [<ffffffff85618009>] ip6_route_output_flags_noref+0x2d9/0x3a0 net/ipv6/route.c:2638 [<ffffffff8561821a>] ip6_route_output_flags+0xca/0x340 net/ipv6/route.c:2651 [<ffffffff838bd5a3>] ip6_route_output include/net/ip6_route.h:100 [inline] [<ffffffff838bd5a3>] ipvlan_process_v6_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:473 [inline] [<ffffffff838bd5a3>] ipvlan_process_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:529 [inline] [<ffffffff838bd5a3>] ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:602 [inline] [<ffffffff838bd5a3>] ipvlan_queue_xmit+0xc33/0x1be0 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:677 [<ffffffff838c2909>] ipvlan_start_xmit+0x49/0x100 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:229 [<ffffffff84d03900>] netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4966 [inline] [<ffffffff84d03900>] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3644 [inline] [<ffffffff84d03900>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x320/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660 [<ffffffff84d080e2>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x16b2/0x3370 net/core/dev.c:4324 [<ffffffff855ce4cd>] dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3067 [inline] [<ffffffff855ce4cd>] neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:529 [inline] [<f ---truncated---
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation (including fuzzing and bounds checks) finds out-of-bounds write flaws before deployment.
Requiring documented secure-development standards and tools can mandate bounds-checked coding practices that avoid the weakness.
Input validation can structurally reject or sanitize data that would otherwise trigger an out-of-bounds write.
Memory-protection mechanisms limit the exploitability and blast radius of a successful out-of-bounds write.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Vulnerability scanning and recording can discover out-of-bounds write flaws so they can be remediated.
Patching or replacing vulnerable software directly eliminates known instances of this coding weakness.
Secure-development practices (static analysis, bounds checking, code review) are the primary means of preventing out-of-bounds writes.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.