# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53660"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:21:20.307Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:15:24.367Z"
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-2023-53660"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53660.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53660"
title: "bpf, cpumap: Handle skb as well when clean up ptr_ring"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, cpumap: Handle skb as well when clean up ptr_ring\n\nThe following warning was reported when running xdp_redirect_cpu with\nboth skb-mode and stress-mode enabled:\n\n  ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  Incorrect XDP memory type (-2128176192) usage\n  WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1442 at net/core/xdp.c:405\n  Modules linked in:\n  CPU: 7 PID: 1442 Comm: kworker/7:0 Tainted: G  6.5.0-rc2+ #1\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)\n  Workqueue: events __cpu_map_entry_free\n  RIP: 0010:__xdp_return+0x1e4/0x4a0\n  ......\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   ? show_regs+0x65/0x70\n   ? __warn+0xa5/0x240\n   ? __xdp_return+0x1e4/0x4a0\n   ......\n   xdp_return_frame+0x4d/0x150\n   __cpu_map_entry_free+0xf9/0x230\n   process_one_work+0x6b0/0xb80\n   worker_thread+0x96/0x720\n   kthread+0x1a5/0x1f0\n   ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x70\n   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe reason for the warning is twofold. One is due to the kthread\ncpu_map_kthread_run() is stopped prematurely. Another one is\n__cpu_map_ring_cleanup() doesn't handle skb mode and treats skbs in\nptr_ring as XDP frames.\n\nPrematurely-stopped kthread will be fixed by the preceding patch and\nptr_ring will be empty when __cpu_map_ring_cleanup() is called. But\nas the comments in __cpu_map_ring_cleanup() said, handling and freeing\nskbs in ptr_ring as well to \"catch any broken behaviour gracefully\"."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"11941f8a85362f612df61f4aaab0e41b64d2111d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b58d34068fd9f96bfc7d389988dfaf9a92a8fe00"},{"version":"11941f8a85362f612df61f4aaab0e41b64d2111d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cbd000451885801e9bbfd9cf7a7946806a85cb5e"},{"version":"11941f8a85362f612df61f4aaab0e41b64d2111d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"937345720d18f1ad006ba3d5dcb3fa121037b8a2"},{"version":"11941f8a85362f612df61f4aaab0e41b64d2111d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c62b75cd1a792e14b037fa4f61f9b18914e7de1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.126","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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