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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52851" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:31:47.220Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:34:14.999Z" 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-2023-52851" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52851.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52851" title: "IB/mlx5: Fix init stage error handling to avoid double free of same QP and UAF" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nIB/mlx5: Fix init stage error handling to avoid double free of same QP and UAF\n\nIn the unlikely event that workqueue allocation fails and returns NULL in\nmlx5_mkey_cache_init(), delete the call to\nmlx5r_umr_resource_cleanup() (which frees the QP) in\nmlx5_ib_stage_post_ib_reg_umr_init(). This will avoid attempted double\nfree of the same QP when __mlx5_ib_add() does its cleanup.\n\nResolves a splat:\n\n Syzkaller reported a UAF in ib_destroy_qp_user\n\n workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq \"mkey_cache\": -EINTR\n infiniband mlx5_0: mlx5_mkey_cache_init:981:(pid 1642):\n failed to create work queue\n infiniband mlx5_0: mlx5_ib_stage_post_ib_reg_umr_init:4075:(pid 1642):\n mr cache init failed -12\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ib_destroy_qp_user (drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c:2073)\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810da310a8 by task repro_upstream/1642\n\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:590)\n ib_destroy_qp_user (drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c:2073)\n mlx5r_umr_resource_cleanup (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/umr.c:198)\n __mlx5_ib_add (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4178)\n mlx5r_probe (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4402)\n ...\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 1642:\n __kmalloc (./include/linux/kasan.h:198 mm/slab_common.c:1026\n mm/slab_common.c:1039)\n create_qp (./include/linux/slab.h:603 ./include/linux/slab.h:720\n ./include/rdma/ib_verbs.h:2795 drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c:1209)\n ib_create_qp_kernel (drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c:1347)\n mlx5r_umr_resource_init (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/umr.c:164)\n mlx5_ib_stage_post_ib_reg_umr_init (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4070)\n __mlx5_ib_add (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4168)\n mlx5r_probe (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4402)\n ...\n\n Freed by task 1642:\n __kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:1826 mm/slub.c:3809 mm/slub.c:3822)\n ib_destroy_qp_user (drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c:2112)\n mlx5r_umr_resource_cleanup (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/umr.c:198)\n mlx5_ib_stage_post_ib_reg_umr_init (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4076\n drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4065)\n __mlx5_ib_add (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4168)\n mlx5r_probe (drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c:4402)\n ..." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"04876c12c19e94bbbc94bb0446c7bc7cd75163de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"437f033e30c897bb3723eac9e9003cd9f88d00a3"},{"version":"04876c12c19e94bbbc94bb0446c7bc7cd75163de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f4a7a7d1404297f2a92df0046f7e64dc5c52dd9"},{"version":"04876c12c19e94bbbc94bb0446c7bc7cd75163de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6387f269d84e6e149499408c4d1fc805017729b2"},{"version":"04876c12c19e94bbbc94bb0446c7bc7cd75163de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ef422f063b74adcc4a4a9004b0a87bb55e0a836"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"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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