# 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-2023-53439"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-18T16:04:17.166Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:00.352Z"
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-2023-53439"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53439.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53439"
title: "net: skb_partial_csum_set() fix against transport header magic value"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: skb_partial_csum_set() fix against transport header magic value\n\nskb-\u003etransport_header uses the special 0xFFFF value\nto mark if the transport header was set or not.\n\nWe must prevent callers to accidentaly set skb-\u003etransport_header\nto 0xFFFF. Note that only fuzzers can possibly do this today.\n\nsyzbot reported:\n\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2340 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2847 skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2956 [inline]\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2340 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2847 virtio_net_hdr_to_skb+0xbcc/0x10c0 include/linux/virtio_net.h:103\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 2340 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.3.0-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/14/2023\nRIP: 0010:skb_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2847 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2956 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:virtio_net_hdr_to_skb+0xbcc/0x10c0 include/linux/virtio_net.h:103\nCode: 41 39 df 0f 82 c3 04 00 00 48 8b 7c 24 10 44 89 e6 e8 08 6e 59 ff 48 85 c0 74 54 e8 ce 36 7e fc e9 37 f8 ff ff e8 c4 36 7e fc \u003c0f\u003e 0b e9 93 f8 ff ff 44 89 f7 44 89 e6 e8 32 38 7e fc 45 39 e6 0f\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90004497880 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: ffffffff84fea55c RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: ffff888120be2100\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ffff RDI: 000000000000ffff\nRBP: ffffc90004497990 R08: ffffffff84fe9de5 R09: 0000000000000034\nR10: ffffea00048ebd80 R11: 0000000000000034 R12: ffff88811dc2d9c8\nR13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88811dc2d9ae R15: 1ffff11023b85b35\nFS: 00007f9211a59700(0000) GS:ffff8881f6c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00000000200002c0 CR3: 00000001215a5000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\npacket_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3076 [inline]\npacket_sendmsg+0x4590/0x61a0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3115\nsock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]\nsock_sendmsg net/socket.c:747 [inline]\n__sys_sendto+0x472/0x630 net/socket.c:2144\n__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2156 [inline]\n__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2152 [inline]\n__x64_sys_sendto+0xe5/0x100 net/socket.c:2152\ndo_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\ndo_syscall_64+0x2f/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\nRIP: 0033:0x7f9210c8c169\nCode: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 f1 19 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 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48\nRSP: 002b:00007f9211a59168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9210dabf80 RCX: 00007f9210c8c169\nRDX: 000000000000ffed RSI: 00000000200000c0 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 00007f9210ce7ca1 R08: 0000000020000540 R09: 0000000000000014\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 00007ffe135d65cf R14: 00007f9211a59300 R15: 0000000000022000"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e785c8deb046305c61b9fa02265d0cb900c4a45"},{"version":"66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70a76d6816148819d0464f71aafa126c84826628"},{"version":"66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"424f8416bb39936df6365442d651ee729b283460"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.1.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.3.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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