linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53192: vxlan: Fix nexthop hash size

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Message-ID: <2025091558-CVE-2023-53192-5ca6@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:02:46 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53192: vxlan: Fix nexthop hash size

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: Fix nexthop hash size

The nexthop code expects a 31 bit hash, such as what is returned by
fib_multipath_hash() and rt6_multipath_hash(). Passing the 32 bit hash
returned by skb_get_hash() can lead to problems related to the fact that
'int hash' is a negative number when the MSB is set.

In the case of hash threshold nexthop groups, nexthop_select_path_hthr()
will disproportionately select the first nexthop group entry. In the case
of resilient nexthop groups, nexthop_select_path_res() may do an out of
bounds access in nh_buckets[], for example:
    hash = -912054133
    num_nh_buckets = 2
    bucket_index = 65535

which leads to the following panic:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc900025910c8
PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 10026b067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 4 PID: 856 Comm: kworker/4:3 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc2+ #34
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work
RIP: 0010:nexthop_select_path+0x197/0xbf0
Code: c1 e4 05 be 08 00 00 00 4c 8b 35 a4 14 7e 01 4e 8d 6c 25 00 4a 8d 7c 25 08 48 01 dd e8 c2 25 15 ff 49 8d 7d 08 e8 39 13 15 ff <4d> 89 75 08 48 89 ef e8 7d 12 15 ff 48 8b 5d 00 e8 14 55 2f 00 85
RSP: 0018:ffff88810c36f260 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000002000c0 RCX: ffffffffaf02dd77
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffc900025910c8
RBP: ffffc900025910c0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff520004b2219
R10: ffffc900025910cf R11: 31392d2068736168 R12: 00000000002000c0
R13: ffffc900025910c0 R14: 00000000fffef608 R15: ffff88811840e900
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffc900025910c8 CR3: 0000000129d00000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __die+0x23/0x70
 ? page_fault_oops+0x1ee/0x5c0
 ? __pfx_is_prefetch.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_page_fault_oops+0x10/0x10
 ? search_bpf_extables+0xfe/0x1c0
 ? fixup_exception+0x3b/0x470
 ? exc_page_fault+0xf6/0x110
 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
 ? nexthop_select_path+0x197/0xbf0
 ? nexthop_select_path+0x197/0xbf0
 ? lock_is_held_type+0xe7/0x140
 vxlan_xmit+0x5b2/0x2340
 ? __lock_acquire+0x92b/0x3370
 ? __pfx_vxlan_xmit+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx___lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_register_lock_class+0x10/0x10
 ? skb_network_protocol+0xce/0x2d0
 ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0xca/0x350
 ? __pfx_vxlan_xmit+0x10/0x10
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xca/0x350
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x513/0x1e20
 ? __pfx___dev_queue_xmit+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
 ? mark_held_locks+0x44/0x90
 ? skb_push+0x4c/0x80
 ? eth_header+0x81/0xe0
 ? __pfx_eth_header+0x10/0x10
 ? neigh_resolve_output+0x215/0x310
 ? ip6_finish_output2+0x2ba/0xc90
 ip6_finish_output2+0x2ba/0xc90
 ? lock_release+0x236/0x3e0
 ? ip6_mtu+0xbb/0x240
 ? __pfx_ip6_finish_output2+0x10/0x10
 ? find_held_lock+0x83/0xa0
 ? lock_is_held_type+0xe7/0x140
 ip6_finish_output+0x1ee/0x780
 ip6_output+0x138/0x460
 ? __pfx_ip6_output+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx___lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_ip6_finish_output+0x10/0x10
 NF_HOOK.constprop.0+0xc0/0x420
 ? __pfx_NF_HOOK.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
 ? ndisc_send_skb+0x2c0/0x960
 ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
 ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x93/0x110
 ? lock_is_held_type+0xe7/0x140
 ndisc_send_skb+0x4be/0x960
 ? __pfx_ndisc_send_skb+0x10/0x10
 ? mark_held_locks+0x65/0x90
 ? find_held_lock+0x83/0xa0
 ndisc_send_ns+0xb0/0x110
 ? __pfx_ndisc_send_ns+0x10/0x10
 addrconf_dad_work+0x631/0x8e0
 ? lock_acquire+0x180/0x3f0
 ? __pfx_addrconf_dad_work+0x10/0x10
 ? mark_held_locks+0x24/0x90
 process_one_work+0x582/0x9c0
 ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
 ? mark_held_locks+0x24/0x90
 worker_thread+0x93/0x630
 ? __kthread_parkme+0xdc/0x100
 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
 kthread+0x1a5/0x1e0
 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x60
 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
RIP: 0000:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0000:0000000000000000 EFLAGS: 00000000 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
CR2: ffffc900025910c8
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:nexthop_select_path+0x197/0xbf0
Code: c1 e4 05 be 08 00 00 00 4c 8b 35 a4 14 7e 01 4e 8d 6c 25 00 4a 8d 7c 25 08 48 01 dd e8 c2 25 15 ff 49 8d 7d 08 e8 39 13 15 ff <4d> 89 75 08 48 89 ef e8 7d 12 15 ff 48 8b 5d 00 e8 14 55 2f 00 85
RSP: 0018:ffff88810c36f260 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000002000c0 RCX: ffffffffaf02dd77
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffc900025910c8
RBP: ffffc900025910c0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff520004b2219
R10: ffffc900025910cf R11: 31392d2068736168 R12: 00000000002000c0
R13: ffffc900025910c0 R14: 00000000fffef608 R15: ffff88811840e900
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 0000000129d00000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0
PKRU: 55555554
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Kernel Offset: 0x2ca00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt ]---

Fix this problem by ensuring the MSB of hash is 0 using a right shift - the
same approach used in fib_multipath_hash() and rt6_multipath_hash().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53192 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2 and fixed in 5.10.190 with commit c650597647ecb318d02372277bdfd866c6829f78
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2 and fixed in 5.15.126 with commit 32ef2c0c6cf11a076f0280a7866b9abc47821e19
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2 and fixed in 6.1.45 with commit 7b8717658dff8b471cbfc124bf9b5ca4229579ed
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2 and fixed in 6.4.10 with commit 23c195ce6f4aec86e1c9e1ea1c800381c4b465c7
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2 and fixed in 6.5 with commit 0756384fb1bd38adb2ebcfd1307422f433a1d772

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53192
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	include/net/vxlan.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c650597647ecb318d02372277bdfd866c6829f78
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32ef2c0c6cf11a076f0280a7866b9abc47821e19
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b8717658dff8b471cbfc124bf9b5ca4229579ed
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23c195ce6f4aec86e1c9e1ea1c800381c4b465c7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0756384fb1bd38adb2ebcfd1307422f433a1d772