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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53398"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-18T13:33:38.842Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:13:53.982Z"
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-2023-53398"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53398.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53398"
title: "mlx5: fix possible ptp queue fifo use-after-free"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmlx5: fix possible ptp queue fifo use-after-free\n\nFifo indexes are not checked during pop operations and it leads to\npotential use-after-free when poping from empty queue. Such case was\npossible during re-sync action. WARN_ON_ONCE covers future cases.\n\nThere were out-of-order cqe spotted which lead to drain of the queue and\nuse-after-free because of lack of fifo pointers check. Special check and\ncounter are added to avoid resync operation if SKB could not exist in the\nfifo because of OOO cqe (skb_id must be between consumer and producer\nindex)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52e6e7a0bc04c85012a9251c7cf2d444a77eb966"},{"version":"58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6afdedc4e66e3846ce497744f01b95c34bf39d21"},{"version":"58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a50cf1e8e5157b82268eee7e330dbe5736a0948"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.1.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.5","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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