{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-05-02T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: net/smc: fix NULL sndbuf_desc in smc_cdc_tx_handler()",
    "id" : "2363781",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2363781"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nnet/smc: fix NULL sndbuf_desc in smc_cdc_tx_handler()\nWhen performing a stress test on SMC-R by rmmod mlx5_ib driver\nduring the wrk/nginx test, we found that there is a probability\nof triggering a panic while terminating all link groups.\nThis issue dues to the race between smc_smcr_terminate_all()\nand smc_buf_create().\nsmc_smcr_terminate_all\nsmc_buf_create\n/* init */\nconn->sndbuf_desc = NULL;\n...\n__smc_lgr_terminate\nsmc_conn_kill\nsmc_close_abort\nsmc_cdc_get_slot_and_msg_send\n__softirqentry_text_start\nsmc_wr_tx_process_cqe\nsmc_cdc_tx_handler\nREAD(conn->sndbuf_desc->len);\n/* panic dues to NULL sndbuf_desc */\nconn->sndbuf_desc = xxx;\nThis patch tries to fix the issue by always to check the sndbuf_desc\nbefore send any cdc msg, to make sure that no null pointer is\nseen during cqe processing." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7077",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6583",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6583",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53110\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53110\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050227-CVE-2023-53110-2b28@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-53110",
  "csaw" : false
}