CVE-2023-52462: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix check for attempt to corrupt spilled pointer When register is spilled onto a stack as a 1/2/4-byte register, we set slot_type[BPF_REG_SIZE - 1] (plus potentially few more below it, depending on actual spill size). So to check if some stack slot has spilled register we need to consult slot_type[7], not slot_type[0]. To avoid the need to remember and double-check this in the future, just use is_spilled_reg() helper.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.10.209 (fixed in 5.10.209); from 5.11.0, before 5.15.148 (fixed in 5.15.148); from 5.16.0, before 6.1.75 (fixed in 6.1.75); from 6.2.0, before 6.6.14 (fixed in 6.6.14); from 6.7.0, before 6.7.2 (fixed in 6.7.2)

Published 2024-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.