# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53566"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:17:08.598Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:30.987Z"
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-2023-53566"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53566.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53566"
title: "netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion\n\nThere is no guarantee that rb_prev() will not return NULL in nft_rbtree_gc_elem():\n\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]\n nft_add_set_elem+0x14b0/0x2990\n  nf_tables_newsetelem+0x528/0xb30\n\nFurthermore, there is a possible use-after-free while iterating,\n'node' can be free'd so we need to cache the next value to use."
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