CVE-2023-53477
CVE-2023-53477CVE-2023-53477
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: Add lwtunnel encap size of all siblings in nexthop calculation
In function rt6_nlmsg_size(), the length of nexthop is calculated
by multipling the nexthop length of fib6_info and the number of
siblings. However if the fib6_info has no lwtunnel but the siblings
have lwtunnels, the nexthop length is less than it should be, and
it will trigger a warning in inet6_rt_notify() as follows:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6082 at net/ipv6/route.c:6180 inet6_rt_notify+0x120/0x130
......
Call Trace:
<TASK>
fib6_add_rt2node+0x685/0xa30
fib6_add+0x96/0x1b0
ip6_route_add+0x50/0xd0
inet6_rtm_newroute+0x97/0xa0
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x156/0x3d0
netlink_rcv_skb+0x5a/0x110
netlink_unicast+0x246/0x350
netlink_sendmsg+0x250/0x4c0
sock_sendmsg+0x66/0x70
___sys_sendmsg+0x7c/0xd0
__sys_sendmsg+0x5d/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
This bug can be reproduced by script:
ip -6 addr add 2002::2/64
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-11-05 |