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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53369" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-18T13:33:17.384Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:43:36.996Z" 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-2023-53369" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53369.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53369" title: "net: dcb: choose correct policy to parse DCB_ATTR_BCN" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: dcb: choose correct policy to parse DCB_ATTR_BCN\n\nThe dcbnl_bcn_setcfg uses erroneous policy to parse tb[DCB_ATTR_BCN],\nwhich is introduced in commit 859ee3c43812 (\"DCB: Add support for DCB\nBCN\"). Please see the comment in below code\n\nstatic int dcbnl_bcn_setcfg(...)\n{\n ...\n ret = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(..., dcbnl_pfc_up_nest, .. )\n // !!! dcbnl_pfc_up_nest for attributes\n // DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_0 to DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_ALL in enum dcbnl_pfc_up_attrs\n ...\n for (i = DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_0; i \u003c= DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_7; i++) {\n // !!! DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_0 to DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_7 in enum dcbnl_bcn_attrs\n ...\n value_byte = nla_get_u8(data[i]);\n ...\n }\n ...\n for (i = DCB_BCN_ATTR_BCNA_0; i \u003c= DCB_BCN_ATTR_RI; i++) {\n // !!! DCB_BCN_ATTR_BCNA_0 to DCB_BCN_ATTR_RI in enum dcbnl_bcn_attrs\n ...\n value_int = nla_get_u32(data[i]);\n ...\n }\n ...\n}\n\nThat is, the nla_parse_nested_deprecated uses dcbnl_pfc_up_nest\nattributes to parse nlattr defined in dcbnl_pfc_up_attrs. But the\nfollowing access code fetch each nlattr as dcbnl_bcn_attrs attributes.\nBy looking up the associated nla_policy for dcbnl_bcn_attrs. We can find\nthe beginning part of these two policies are \"same\".\n\nstatic const struct nla_policy dcbnl_pfc_up_nest[...] = {\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_0] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_1] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_2] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_3] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_4] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_5] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_6] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_7] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_ALL] = {.type = NLA_FLAG},\n};\n\nstatic const struct nla_policy dcbnl_bcn_nest[...] = {\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_0] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_1] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_2] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_3] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_4] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_5] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_6] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_7] = {.type = NLA_U8},\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_ALL] = {.type = NLA_FLAG},\n // from here is somewhat different\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_BCNA_0] = {.type = NLA_U32},\n ...\n [DCB_BCN_ATTR_ALL] = {.type = NLA_FLAG},\n};\n\nTherefore, the current code is buggy and this\nnla_parse_nested_deprecated could overflow the dcbnl_pfc_up_nest and use\nthe adjacent nla_policy to parse attributes from DCB_BCN_ATTR_BCNA_0.\n\nHence use the correct policy dcbnl_bcn_nest to parse the nested\ntb[DCB_ATTR_BCN] TLV." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"859ee3c43812051e21816c6d6d4cc04fb7ce9b2e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b3dbedb8d4a0f9f7ce904d76b885438af2a21f9"},{"version":"859ee3c43812051e21816c6d6d4cc04fb7ce9b2e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e309f43d0ca4051d20736c06a6f84bbddd881da"},{"version":"859ee3c43812051e21816c6d6d4cc04fb7ce9b2e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0da2684db18dead3bcee12fb185e596e3d63c2b"},{"version":"859ee3c43812051e21816c6d6d4cc04fb7ce9b2e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ecff20e193207b44fdbfe64d7de89890f0a7fe6c"},{"version":"859ee3c43812051e21816c6d6d4cc04fb7ce9b2e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"199fde04bd875d28b3a5ca525eaaa004eec6e947"},{"version":"859ee3c43812051e21816c6d6d4cc04fb7ce9b2e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31d49ba033095f6e8158c60f69714a500922e0c3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.29","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.29"},{"version":"5.4.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.126","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","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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