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CVE-2023-54206
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-12-30T13:16:08.750 · Last modified 2026-08-04T11:16:36.730

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: flower: fix filter idr initialization The cited commit moved idr initialization too early in fl_change() which allows concurrent users to access the filter that is still being initialized and is in inconsistent state, which, in turn, can cause NULL pointer dereference [0]. Since there is no obvious way to fix the ordering without reverting the whole cited commit, alternative approach taken to first insert NULL pointer into idr in order to allocate the handle but still cause fl_get() to return NULL and prevent concurrent users from seeing the filter while providing miss-to-action infrastructure with valid handle id early in fl_change(). [ 152.434728] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical addres

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