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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52574"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-02T21:59:43.271Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:10:28.113Z"
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-2023-52574"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52574.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52574"
title: "team: fix null-ptr-deref when team device type is changed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nteam: fix null-ptr-deref when team device type is changed\n\nGet a null-ptr-deref bug as follows with reproducer [1].\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000228\n...\nRIP: 0010:vlan_dev_hard_header+0x35/0x140 [8021q]\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die+0x24/0x70\n ? page_fault_oops+0x82/0x150\n ? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x150\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n ? vlan_dev_hard_header+0x35/0x140 [8021q]\n ? vlan_dev_hard_header+0x8e/0x140 [8021q]\n neigh_connected_output+0xb2/0x100\n ip6_finish_output2+0x1cb/0x520\n ? nf_hook_slow+0x43/0xc0\n ? ip6_mtu+0x46/0x80\n ip6_finish_output+0x2a/0xb0\n mld_sendpack+0x18f/0x250\n mld_ifc_work+0x39/0x160\n process_one_work+0x1e6/0x3f0\n worker_thread+0x4d/0x2f0\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0xe5/0x120\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n\n[1]\n$ teamd -t team0 -d -c '{\"runner\": {\"name\": \"loadbalance\"}}'\n$ ip link add name t-dummy type dummy\n$ ip link add link t-dummy name t-dummy.100 type vlan id 100\n$ ip link add name t-nlmon type nlmon\n$ ip link set t-nlmon master team0\n$ ip link set t-nlmon nomaster\n$ ip link set t-dummy up\n$ ip link set team0 up\n$ ip link set t-dummy.100 down\n$ ip link set t-dummy.100 master team0\n\nWhen enslave a vlan device to team device and team device type is changed\nfrom non-ether to ether, header_ops of team device is changed to\nvlan_header_ops. That is incorrect and will trigger null-ptr-deref\nfor vlan-\u003ereal_dev in vlan_dev_hard_header() because team device is not\na vlan device.\n\nCache eth_header_ops in team_setup(), then assign cached header_ops to\nheader_ops of team net device when its type is changed from non-ether\nto ether to fix the bug."
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