5.5

CVE-2023-53525: RDMA/cma: Allow UD qp_type to join multicast only

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53525DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53525
Published 01-10-2025Last modified 23-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53525 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.15%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 4
RHSA-2024:2394RHSA-2024:3138SUSE-SU-2025:03615-1SUSE-SU-2025:03628-1SUSE-SU-2025:3716-1SUSE-SU-2025:3761-1

Timeline

  1. 01-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cma: Allow UD qp_type to join multicast only As for multicast: - The SIDR is the only mode that makes sense; - Besides PS_UDP, other port spaces like PS_IB is also allowed, as it is UD compatible. In this case qkey also needs to be set [1]. This patch allows only UD qp_type to join multicast, and set qkey to default if it's not set, to fix an uninit-value error: the ib->rec.qkey field is accessed without being initialized. ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in cma_set_qkey drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:510 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in cma_make_mc_event+0xb73/0xe00 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4570 cma_set_qkey drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:510 [inline] cma_make_mc_event+0xb73/0xe00 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4570 cma_iboe_join_multicast drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4782 [inline] rdma_join_multicast+0x2b83/0x30a0 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4814 ucma_process_join+0xa76/0xf60 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1479 ucma_join_multicast+0x1e3/0x250 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1546 ucma_write+0x639/0x6d0 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1732 vfs_write+0x8ce/0x2030 fs/read_write.c:588 ksys_write+0x28c/0x520 fs/read_write.c:643 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:655 [inline] __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:652 [inline] __ia32_sys_write+0xdb/0x120 fs/read_write.c:652 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:114 [inline] __do_fast_syscall_32+0x96/0xf0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:180 do_fast_syscall_32+0x34/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:205 do_SYSENTER_32+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/entry/common.c:248 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x4d/0x5c Local variable ib.i created at: cma_iboe_join_multicast drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4737 [inline] rdma_join_multicast+0x586/0x30a0 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4814 ucma_process_join+0xa76/0xf60 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1479 CPU: 0 PID: 29874 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 ===================================================== [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20220117183832.GD84788@nvidia.com/

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.14% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu108 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-79.86
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1042.47
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ b5de0c60cc30c2a3513c7188c73f3f29acc29234, < ae11498851423d6de27aebfe12a5ee85060ab1d5 | ≥ b5de0c60cc30c2a3513c7188c73f3f29acc29234, < 48e8e7851dc0b1584d83817a78fc7108c8904b54 | ≥ b5de0c60cc30c2a3513c7188c73f3f29acc29234, < 02eabb635bc64bd1e3a7cf887d6d182bffb64b99 | ≥ b5de0c60cc30c2a3513c7188c73f3f29acc29234, < bb18b9dbac2bbdf7695e0bfaac4bf944ff7b207d | ≥ b5de0c60cc30c2a3513c7188c73f3f29acc29234, < 58e84f6b3e84e46524b7e5a916b53c1ad798bc8f | b8d1adbff983be0b54f61c9a4169609d7fab0620 | feed39c8d1282279fcb30612aa0e8d2635c11280 | ≥ 5.8.17, < 5.9 | ≥ 5.9.2, < 5.10 | 5.10
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.8.17, < 5.9 | ≥ 5.9.2, < 5.10.178 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.108 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.25 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.2.12 | 6.3:rc1 | 6.3:rc2 | 6.3:rc3 | 6.3:rc4 | 6.3:rc5 | 6.3:rc6
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.25-1

3 vendors · 111 products

References

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