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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52845" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:31:43.181Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:11:38.672Z" 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-2023-52845" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52845.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52845" title: "tipc: Change nla_policy for bearer-related names to NLA_NUL_STRING" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: Change nla_policy for bearer-related names to NLA_NUL_STRING\n\nsyzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]:\n\n=====================================================\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strlen lib/string.c:418 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strstr+0xb8/0x2f0 lib/string.c:756\n strlen lib/string.c:418 [inline]\n strstr+0xb8/0x2f0 lib/string.c:756\n tipc_nl_node_reset_link_stats+0x3ea/0xb50 net/tipc/node.c:2595\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:971 [inline]\n genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1051 [inline]\n genl_rcv_msg+0x11ec/0x1290 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1066\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x371/0x650 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2545\n genl_rcv+0x40/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1075\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1342 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0xf47/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1368\n netlink_sendmsg+0x1238/0x13d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1910\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2541\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2595\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2624 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2633 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2631 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2631\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nUninit was created at:\n slab_post_alloc_hook+0x12f/0xb70 mm/slab.h:767\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x577/0xa80 mm/slub.c:3523\n kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:559\n __alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:650\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]\n netlink_alloc_large_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1214 [inline]\n netlink_sendmsg+0xb34/0x13d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1885\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2541\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2595\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2624 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2633 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2631 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2631\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nTIPC bearer-related names including link names must be null-terminated\nstrings. If a link name which is not null-terminated is passed through\nnetlink, strstr() and similar functions can cause buffer overrun. This\ncauses the above issue.\n\nThis patch changes the nla_policy for bearer-related names from NLA_STRING\nto NLA_NUL_STRING. This resolves the issue by ensuring that only\nnull-terminated strings are accepted as bearer-related names.\n\nsyzbot reported similar uninit-value issue related to bearer names [2]. The\nroot cause of this issue is that a non-null-terminated bearer name was\npassed. This patch also resolved this issue." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6744008c354bca2e4686a5b6056ee6b535d9f67d"},{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2426425d686b43adbc4f2f4a367b494f06f159d6"},{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2199260c42e6fbc5af8adae3bf78e623407c91b0"},{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b33d130f07f1decd756b849ab03c23d11d4dd294"},{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3907b89cd17fcc23e9a80789c36856f00ece0ba8"},{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c731e98fe4d678e87ba3e4d45d3cf0a5a193dc4"},{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"abc1582119e8c4af14cedb0db6541fd603f45a04"},{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"560992f41c0cea44b7603bc9e6c73bffbf6b5709"},{"version":"0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19b3f72a41a8751e26bffc093bb7e1cef29ad579"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"version":"4.14.330","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.299","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.201","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.139","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.63","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7","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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