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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-54070" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T12:23:14.182Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:54:53.709Z" 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-2023-54070" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54070.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54070" title: "igb: clean up in all error paths when enabling SR-IOV" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nigb: clean up in all error paths when enabling SR-IOV\n\nAfter commit 50f303496d92 (\"igb: Enable SR-IOV after reinit\"), removing\nthe igb module could hang or crash (depending on the machine) when the\nmodule has been loaded with the max_vfs parameter set to some value != 0.\n\nIn case of one test machine with a dual port 82580, this hang occurred:\n\n[ 232.480687] igb 0000:41:00.1: removed PHC on enp65s0f1\n[ 233.093257] igb 0000:41:00.1: IOV Disabled\n[ 233.329969] pcieport 0000:40:01.0: AER: Multiple Uncorrected (Non-Fatal) err0\n[ 233.340302] igb 0000:41:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fata)\n[ 233.352248] igb 0000:41:00.0: device [8086:1516] error status/mask=00100000\n[ 233.361088] igb 0000:41:00.0: [20] UnsupReq (First)\n[ 233.368183] igb 0000:41:00.0: AER: TLP Header: 40000001 0000040f cdbfc00c c\n[ 233.376846] igb 0000:41:00.1: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fata)\n[ 233.388779] igb 0000:41:00.1: device [8086:1516] error status/mask=00100000\n[ 233.397629] igb 0000:41:00.1: [20] UnsupReq (First)\n[ 233.404736] igb 0000:41:00.1: AER: TLP Header: 40000001 0000040f cdbfc00c c\n[ 233.538214] pci 0000:41:00.1: AER: can't recover (no error_detected callback)\n[ 233.538401] igb 0000:41:00.0: removed PHC on enp65s0f0\n[ 233.546197] pcieport 0000:40:01.0: AER: device recovery failed\n[ 234.157244] igb 0000:41:00.0: IOV Disabled\n[ 371.619705] INFO: task irq/35-aerdrv:257 blocked for more than 122 seconds.\n[ 371.627489] Not tainted 6.4.0-dirty #2\n[ 371.632257] \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this.\n[ 371.641000] task:irq/35-aerdrv state:D stack:0 pid:257 ppid:2 f0\n[ 371.650330] Call Trace:\n[ 371.653061] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 371.655407] __schedule+0x20e/0x660\n[ 371.659313] schedule+0x5a/0xd0\n[ 371.662824] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x11/0x20\n[ 371.667983] __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x372/0x6c0\n[ 371.673237] ? __pfx_aer_root_reset+0x10/0x10\n[ 371.678105] report_error_detected+0x25/0x1c0\n[ 371.682974] ? __pfx_report_normal_detected+0x10/0x10\n[ 371.688618] pci_walk_bus+0x72/0x90\n[ 371.692519] pcie_do_recovery+0xb2/0x330\n[ 371.696899] aer_process_err_devices+0x117/0x170\n[ 371.702055] aer_isr+0x1c0/0x1e0\n[ 371.705661] ? __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x54/0xa0\n[ 371.710723] ? __pfx_irq_thread_fn+0x10/0x10\n[ 371.715496] irq_thread_fn+0x20/0x60\n[ 371.719491] irq_thread+0xe6/0x1b0\n[ 371.723291] ? __pfx_irq_thread_dtor+0x10/0x10\n[ 371.728255] ? __pfx_irq_thread+0x10/0x10\n[ 371.732731] kthread+0xe2/0x110\n[ 371.736243] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 371.740430] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50\n[ 371.744428] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe reproducer was a simple script:\n\n #!/bin/sh\n for i in `seq 1 5`; do\n modprobe -rv igb\n modprobe -v igb max_vfs=1\n sleep 1\n modprobe -rv igb\n done\n\nIt turned out that this could only be reproduce on 82580 (quad and\ndual-port), but not on 82576, i350 and i210. Further debugging showed\nthat igb_enable_sriov()'s call to pci_enable_sriov() is failing, because\ndev-\u003eis_physfn is 0 on 82580.\n\nPrior to commit 50f303496d92 (\"igb: Enable SR-IOV after reinit\"),\nigb_enable_sriov() jumped into the \"err_out\" cleanup branch. After this\ncommit it only returned the error code.\n\nSo the cleanup didn't take place, and the incorrect VF setup in the\nigb_adapter structure fooled the igb driver into assuming that VFs have\nbeen set up where no VF actually existed.\n\nFix this problem by cleaning up again if pci_enable_sriov() fails." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"50f303496d92e25b79bdfb73e3707ad0684ad67f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e3ea7e82a06014b9baf1b84ba579c38cbff3558"},{"version":"50f303496d92e25b79bdfb73e3707ad0684ad67f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc6ed2fa24b14e40e1005488bbe11268ce7108fa"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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