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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52523" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-03-02T21:52:30.351Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:10:23.650Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52523" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52523.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52523" title: "bpf, sockmap: Reject sk_msg egress redirects to non-TCP sockets" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, sockmap: Reject sk_msg egress redirects to non-TCP sockets\n\nWith a SOCKMAP/SOCKHASH map and an sk_msg program user can steer messages\nsent from one TCP socket (s1) to actually egress from another TCP\nsocket (s2):\n\ntcp_bpf_sendmsg(s1)\t\t// = sk_prot-\u003esendmsg\n tcp_bpf_send_verdict(s1)\t// __SK_REDIRECT case\n tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir(s2)\n tcp_bpf_push_locked(s2)\n\ttcp_bpf_push(s2)\n\t tcp_rate_check_app_limited(s2) // expects tcp_sock\n\t tcp_sendmsg_locked(s2)\t // ditto\n\nThere is a hard-coded assumption in the call-chain, that the egress\nsocket (s2) is a TCP socket.\n\nHowever in commit 122e6c79efe1 (\"sock_map: Update sock type checks for\nUDP\") we have enabled redirects to non-TCP sockets. This was done for the\nsake of BPF sk_skb programs. There was no indention to support sk_msg\nsend-to-egress use case.\n\nAs a result, attempts to send-to-egress through a non-TCP socket lead to a\ncrash due to invalid downcast from sock to tcp_sock:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000002f\n ...\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? show_regs+0x60/0x70\n ? __die+0x1f/0x70\n ? page_fault_oops+0x80/0x160\n ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2d7/0x800\n ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0x50\n ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x1c0\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30\n ? tcp_tso_segs+0x14/0xa0\n tcp_write_xmit+0x67/0xce0\n __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x32/0xf0\n tcp_push+0x107/0x140\n tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x99f/0xbb0\n tcp_bpf_push+0x19d/0x3a0\n tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir+0x55/0xd0\n tcp_bpf_send_verdict+0x407/0x550\n tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x1a1/0x390\n inet_sendmsg+0x6a/0x70\n sock_sendmsg+0x9d/0xc0\n ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x12/0x80\n __sys_sendto+0x10e/0x160\n ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x20/0x60\n ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x82/0x110\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x1f/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nReject selecting a non-TCP sockets as redirect target from a BPF sk_msg\nprogram to prevent the crash. When attempted, user will receive an EACCES\nerror from send/sendto/sendmsg() syscall." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"122e6c79efe1c25816118aca9cfabe54e99c2432","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc8b89b6963803a123f64aa9494155a037b3d728"},{"version":"122e6c79efe1c25816118aca9cfabe54e99c2432","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8f97e47b6fb84fcf2f5a22e725eefb6cf5070c2"},{"version":"122e6c79efe1c25816118aca9cfabe54e99c2432","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ded6e448028f0f91b6af35985afca01fa02a9089"},{"version":"122e6c79efe1c25816118aca9cfabe54e99c2432","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b80e31baa43614e086a9d29dc1151932b1bd7fc5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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