# 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-2023-53619"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:19:26.003Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:31.970Z"
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-2023-53619"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53619.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53619"
title: "netfilter: conntrack: Avoid nf_ct_helper_hash uses after free"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: conntrack: Avoid nf_ct_helper_hash uses after free\n\nIf nf_conntrack_init_start() fails (for example due to a\nregister_nf_conntrack_bpf() failure), the nf_conntrack_helper_fini()\nclean-up path frees the nf_ct_helper_hash map.\n\nWhen built with NF_CONNTRACK=y, further netfilter modules (e.g:\nnetfilter_conntrack_ftp) can still be loaded and call\nnf_conntrack_helpers_register(), independently of whether nf_conntrack\ninitialized correctly. This accesses the nf_ct_helper_hash dangling\npointer and causes a uaf, possibly leading to random memory corruption.\n\nThis patch guards nf_conntrack_helper_register() from accessing a freed\nor uninitialized nf_ct_helper_hash pointer and fixes possible\nuses-after-free when loading a conntrack module."
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