# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53053"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:55:08.575Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:37:39.136Z"
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-2023-53053"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53053.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53053"
title: "erspan: do not use skb_mac_header() in ndo_start_xmit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nerspan: do not use skb_mac_header() in ndo_start_xmit()\n\nDrivers should not assume skb_mac_header(skb) == skb-\u003edata in their\nndo_start_xmit().\n\nUse skb_network_offset() and skb_transport_offset() which\nbetter describe what is needed in erspan_fb_xmit() and\nip6erspan_tunnel_xmit()\n\nsyzbot reported:\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5083 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2873 skb_mac_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2873 [inline]\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5083 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2873 ip6erspan_tunnel_xmit+0x1d9c/0x2d90 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:962\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 5083 Comm: syz-executor406 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc2-syzkaller-00866-gd4671cb96fa3 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/02/2023\nRIP: 0010:skb_mac_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2873 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:ip6erspan_tunnel_xmit+0x1d9c/0x2d90 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:962\nCode: 04 02 41 01 de 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 1c 0a 00 00 45 89 b4 24 c8 00 00 00 c6 85 77 fe ff ff 01 e9 33 e7 ff ff e8 b4 27 a1 f8 \u003c0f\u003e 0b e9 b6 e7 ff ff e8 a8 27 a1 f8 49 8d bf f0 0c 00 00 48 b8 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90003b2f830 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff888021273a80 RSI: ffffffff88e1bd4c RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: ffffc90003b2f9d8 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 000000000000ffff\nR10: 000000000000ffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88802b28da00\nR13: 00000000000000d0 R14: ffff88807e25b6d0 R15: ffff888023408000\nFS: 0000555556a61300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 000055e5b11eb6e8 CR3: 0000000027c1b000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\n__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4900 [inline]\nnetdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4914 [inline]\n__dev_direct_xmit+0x504/0x730 net/core/dev.c:4300\ndev_direct_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3088 [inline]\npacket_xmit+0x20a/0x390 net/packet/af_packet.c:285\npacket_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3075 [inline]\npacket_sendmsg+0x31a0/0x5150 net/packet/af_packet.c:3107\nsock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]\nsock_sendmsg+0xde/0x190 net/socket.c:747\n__sys_sendto+0x23a/0x340 net/socket.c:2142\n__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2154 [inline]\n__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2150 [inline]\n__x64_sys_sendto+0xe1/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2150\ndo_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\ndo_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\nRIP: 0033:0x7f123aaa1039\nCode: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 b1 14 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48\nRSP: 002b:00007ffc15d12058 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f123aaa1039\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000020000040 R09: 0000000000000014\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f123aa648c0\nR13: 431bde82d7b634db R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1baf5ebf8954d9bff8fa4e7dd6c416a0cebdb9e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da149daf821a3c05cd04f7c60776c86c5ee9685c"},{"version":"1baf5ebf8954d9bff8fa4e7dd6c416a0cebdb9e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b72f453e886af532bde1fd049a2d2421999630d3"},{"version":"1baf5ebf8954d9bff8fa4e7dd6c416a0cebdb9e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8cec30541f5c5cc218e9a32138d45d227727f2f"},{"version":"1baf5ebf8954d9bff8fa4e7dd6c416a0cebdb9e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b41f37dbd9cdb60000e3b0dfad6df787591c2265"},{"version":"1baf5ebf8954d9bff8fa4e7dd6c416a0cebdb9e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c7d6803689c99d55bbb862260d0ba486ff23c0b"},{"version":"1baf5ebf8954d9bff8fa4e7dd6c416a0cebdb9e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d4172732f0ee1639a361a6cc5c3114bbb397386"},{"version":"1baf5ebf8954d9bff8fa4e7dd6c416a0cebdb9e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e50ed774554f93d55426039b27b1e38d7fa64d8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"version":"4.19.280","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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