CVE-2023-54065

net: dsa: realtek: fix out-of-bounds access

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 10:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: realtek: fix out-of-bounds access The probe function sets priv->chip_data to (void *)priv + sizeof(*priv) with the expectation that priv has enough trailing space. However, only realtek-smi actually allocated this chip_data space. Do likewise in realtek-mdio to fix out-of-bounds accesses. These accesses likely went unnoticed so far, because of an (unused) buf[4096] member in struct realtek_priv, which caused kmalloc to round up the allocated buffer to a big enough size, so nothing of value was overwritten. With a different allocator (like in the barebox bootloader port of the driver) or with KASAN, the memory corruption becomes quickly apparent.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.18 ≤ v < 6.1.235.18 ≤ v < 6.2.105.18 ≤ v < 6.35.18aac94001067da183455d6d37959892744fa01d9d
Vendor states this is fixed in b93eb564869321d0dffaf23fcc5c88112ed62466 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cc0f9bb99735d2b68fac68f37b585d615728ce5b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fe668aa499b4b95425044ba11af9609db6ecf466 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.23 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3 (unaffected)

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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