Vulnerability · Published Oct 1, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2023-53477ipv6: Add lwtunnel encap size of all siblings in nexthop calculation

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 5% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 94.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 dev ens2 ip -6 route add 100::/64 via 2002::1 dev ens2 metric 100 for i in 10 20 30 40 50 60 70; do ip link add link ens2 name ipv_$i type ipvlan ip -6 addr add 2002::$i/64 dev ipv_$i ifconfig ipv_$i up done for i in 10 20 30 40 50 60; do ip -6 route append 100::/64 encap ip6 dst 2002::$i via 2002::1 dev ipv_$i metric 100 done ip -6 route append 100::/64 via 2002::1 dev ipv_70 metric 100 This patch fixes it by adding nexthop_len of every siblings using rt6_nh_nlmsg_size().

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.20-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53477
Debian:13linux6.1.20-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53477
Debian:14linux6.1.20-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-79.86UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1042.47UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1045.52UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1045.52.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1039.47UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1039.44UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1025.30UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1035.38UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1037.42UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1039.44UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-79.88UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1030.30UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1016.16UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1002.2UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1040.46UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1035.38UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1025.29UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53477

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux beb1afac518dec5a15dc92ba8f0ca016dcf457b4 – before aba298b35619213ca787d08d472049627d8cd012beb1afac518dec5a15dc92ba8f0ca016dcf457b4 – before da26369377f0b671c14692e2d65ceb38131053e1beb1afac518dec5a15dc92ba8f0ca016dcf457b4 – before dcdddb5f490890d058ea1f194d661219e92fe88dbeb1afac518dec5a15dc92ba8f0ca016dcf457b4 – before e11e4d524eba2d3c8fdf897d7ce3853f7573bae9beb1afac518dec5a15dc92ba8f0ca016dcf457b4 – before aa75d826c221e8d48607aef33836cf872a159cf1beb1afac518dec5a15dc92ba8f0ca016dcf457b4 – before 4cc59f386991ec9374cb4bc83dbe1c0b5a95033f
Linux Linux 4.11

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