Bug 2400696 (CVE-2023-53502) - CVE-2023-53502 kernel: xen/netback: Fix buffer overrun triggered by unusual packet
Summary: CVE-2023-53502 kernel: xen/netback: Fix buffer overrun triggered by unusual p...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53502
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability-draft
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-02 10:23 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:02:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xen/netback: Fix buffer overrun triggered by unusual packet

It is possible that a guest can send a packet that contains a head + 18
slots and yet has a len <= XEN_NETBACK_TX_COPY_LEN. This causes nr_slots
to underflow in xenvif_get_requests() which then causes the subsequent
loop's termination condition to be wrong, causing a buffer overrun of
queue->tx_map_ops.

Rework the code to account for the extra frag_overflow slots.

This is CVE-2023-34319 / XSA-432.


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