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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54265"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:15:57.557Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:58:37.830Z"
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-2023-54265"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54265.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54265"
title: "ipv6: Fix an uninit variable access bug in __ip6_make_skb()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: Fix an uninit variable access bug in __ip6_make_skb()\n\nSyzbot reported a bug as following:\n\n=====================================================\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in arch_atomic64_inc arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:88 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in arch_atomic_long_inc include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:161 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in atomic_long_inc include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1429 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __ip6_make_skb+0x2f37/0x30f0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1956\n arch_atomic64_inc arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:88 [inline]\n arch_atomic_long_inc include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:161 [inline]\n atomic_long_inc include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1429 [inline]\n __ip6_make_skb+0x2f37/0x30f0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1956\n ip6_finish_skb include/net/ipv6.h:1122 [inline]\n ip6_push_pending_frames+0x10e/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1987\n rawv6_push_pending_frames+0xb12/0xb90 net/ipv6/raw.c:579\n rawv6_sendmsg+0x297e/0x2e60 net/ipv6/raw.c:922\n inet_sendmsg+0x101/0x180 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:827\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]\n ____sys_sendmsg+0xa8e/0xe70 net/socket.c:2476\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a1/0x3f0 net/socket.c:2530\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2559 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2568 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2566 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x367/0x540 net/socket.c:2566\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nUninit was created at:\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:766 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3452 [inline]\n __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x71f/0xce0 mm/slub.c:3491\n __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:967 [inline]\n __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x114/0x3b0 mm/slab_common.c:988\n kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:492 [inline]\n __alloc_skb+0x3af/0x8f0 net/core/skbuff.c:565\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1270 [inline]\n __ip6_append_data+0x51c1/0x6bb0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1684\n ip6_append_data+0x411/0x580 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1854\n rawv6_sendmsg+0x2882/0x2e60 net/ipv6/raw.c:915\n inet_sendmsg+0x101/0x180 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:827\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]\n ____sys_sendmsg+0xa8e/0xe70 net/socket.c:2476\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a1/0x3f0 net/socket.c:2530\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2559 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2568 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2566 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x367/0x540 net/socket.c:2566\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nIt is because icmp6hdr does not in skb linear region under the scenario\nof SOCK_RAW socket. Access icmp6_hdr(skb)-\u003eicmp6_type directly will\ntrigger the uninit variable access bug.\n\nUse a local variable icmp6_type to carry the correct value in different\nscenarios."
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