# 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-2023-54243"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:11:31.180Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:43.012Z"
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-2023-54243"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54243.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54243"
title: "netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free\n\nWe are not allowed to return an error at this point.\nLooking at the code it looks like ret is always 0 at this\npoint, but its not.\n\nt = find_table_lock(net, repl-\u003ename, &ret, &ebt_mutex);\n\n... this can return a valid table, with ret != 0.\n\nThis bug causes update of table-\u003eprivate with the new\nblob, but then frees the blob right away in the caller.\n\nSyzbot report:\n\nBUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in __ebt_unregister_table+0xc00/0xcd0 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1168\nRead of size 4 at addr ffffc90005425000 by task kworker/u4:4/74\nWorkqueue: netns cleanup_net\nCall Trace:\n kasan_report+0xbf/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:517\n __ebt_unregister_table+0xc00/0xcd0 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1168\n ebt_unregister_table+0x35/0x40 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1372\n ops_exit_list+0xb0/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:169\n cleanup_net+0x4ee/0xb10 net/core/net_namespace.c:613\n...\n\nip(6)tables appears to be ok (ret should be 0 at this point) but make\nthis more obvious."
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