CVE-2023-53495: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: mvpp2_main: fix possible OOB write in mvpp2_ethtool_get_rxnfc() rules is allocated in ethtool_get_rxnfc and the size is determined by rule_cnt from user space. So rule_cnt needs to be check before using rules to avoid OOB writing or NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.2, before 5.4.257 (fixed in 5.4.257); from 5.5, before 5.10.195 (fixed in 5.10.195); from 5.11, before 5.15.132 (fixed in 5.15.132); from 5.16, before 6.1.54 (fixed in 6.1.54); from 6.2, before 6.5.4 (fixed in 6.5.4); version 6.6 only

Published 2025-10-01. Last modified 2026-08-04.