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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53462"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:33.434Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:14:11.442Z"
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-2023-53462"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53462.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53462"
title: "hsr: Fix uninit-value access in fill_frame_info()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhsr: Fix uninit-value access in fill_frame_info()\n\nSyzbot reports the following uninit-value access problem.\n\n=====================================================\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fill_frame_info net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:601 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hsr_forward_skb+0x9bd/0x30f0 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:616\n fill_frame_info net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:601 [inline]\n hsr_forward_skb+0x9bd/0x30f0 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:616\n hsr_dev_xmit+0x192/0x330 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:223\n __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4889 [inline]\n netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4903 [inline]\n xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3544 [inline]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3560\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x34d0/0x52a0 net/core/dev.c:4340\n dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3082 [inline]\n packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6b0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276\n packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3087 [inline]\n packet_sendmsg+0x8b1d/0x9f30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]\n __sys_sendto+0x781/0xa30 net/socket.c:2176\n __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2188 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2184 [inline]\n __ia32_sys_sendto+0x11f/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2184\n do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]\n __do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178\n do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203\n do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246\n entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82\n\nUninit was created at:\n slab_post_alloc_hook+0x12f/0xb70 mm/slab.h:767\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x577/0xa80 mm/slub.c:3523\n kmalloc_reserve+0x148/0x470 net/core/skbuff.c:559\n __alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:644\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]\n alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6299\n sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2794\n packet_alloc_skb net/packet/af_packet.c:2936 [inline]\n packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3030 [inline]\n packet_sendmsg+0x70e8/0x9f30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]\n __sys_sendto+0x781/0xa30 net/socket.c:2176\n __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2188 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2184 [inline]\n __ia32_sys_sendto+0x11f/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2184\n do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]\n __do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178\n do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203\n do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246\n entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82\n\nIt is because VLAN not yet supported in hsr driver. Return error\nwhen protocol is ETH_P_8021Q in fill_frame_info() now to fix it."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"451d8123f89791bb628277c0bdb4cae34a3563e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e90a93ac4845c31724ec5dc96fb51e608435a9d"},{"version":"451d8123f89791bb628277c0bdb4cae34a3563e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a4480c5e6ebaf9f797ac300e2a97a02d4e70cfd"},{"version":"451d8123f89791bb628277c0bdb4cae34a3563e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61866f7d814e5792bf47410d7d3ff32e49bd292a"},{"version":"451d8123f89791bb628277c0bdb4cae34a3563e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed7a0ba7e840dc5d54cdbd8466be27e6aedce1e5"},{"version":"451d8123f89791bb628277c0bdb4cae34a3563e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"484b4833c604c0adcf19eac1ca14b60b757355b5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.10.195","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.132","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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