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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Sep 16, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 16, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset()

After blamed commit, we must be more careful about using
skb_transport_offset(), as reminded us by syzbot:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.1.30-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet
RIP: 0010:skb_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline]
RIP: 0010:perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14
Code: 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 3b 84 24 c0 00 00 00 0f 85 4e 04 00 00 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc e8 56 22 01 fd <0f> 0b e9 f6 fc ff ff 89 f9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 86 f9 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900002bf700 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8485d8ca RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: ffff888100914280
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ffff RDI: 000000000000ffff
RBP: ffffc900002bf818 R08: ffffffff8485d5b6 R09: fffffbfff0f8fb5e
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff110217d8f67
R13: ffff88810bec7b3a R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f96cf6d52f0 CR3: 000000012224c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:

[] trace_net_dev_start_xmit include/trace/events/net.h:14 [inline]
[] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3643 [inline]
[] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x705/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660
[] __dev_queue_xmit+0x16b2/0x3370 net/core/dev.c:4324
[] dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3030 [inline]
[] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x3f3/0x680 net/batman-adv/send.c:108
[] batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127
[] batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:393 [inline]
[] batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:421 [inline]
[] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x69a/0x840 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1701
[] process_one_work+0x8ac/0x1170 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
[] worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2436

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 16, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 16, 2025
Last updated Sep 16, 2025

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2023-53312

GHSA ID

GHSA-gp2g-j8q2-w9v8

Source code

No known source code

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