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CVE-2023-54236: net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning

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AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54236DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54236
Published 30-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-54236 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 0, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
0.0/10
010
Unknown · v4.0 (OSV · Ubuntu), selected by version preference
EPSS score
0.21%
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 5 · Related 5
SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1SUSE-SU-2026:0316-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1

Timeline

  1. 30-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning The failover txq is inited as 16 queues. when a packet is transmitted from the failover device firstly, the failover device will select the queue which is returned from the primary device if the primary device is UP and running. If the primary device txq is bigger than the default 16, it can lead to the following warning: eth0 selects TX queue 18, but real number of TX queues is 16 The warning backtrace is: [ 32.146376] CPU: 18 PID: 9134 Comm: chronyd Tainted: G E 6.2.8-1.el7.centos.x86_64 #1 [ 32.147175] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.10.2-3.el7_4.1 04/01/2014 [ 32.147730] Call Trace: [ 32.147971] <TASK> [ 32.148183] dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x70 [ 32.148514] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 32.148820] netdev_core_pick_tx+0xb1/0xe0 [ 32.149180] __dev_queue_xmit+0x529/0xcf0 [ 32.149533] ? __check_object_size.part.0+0x21c/0x2c0 [ 32.149967] ip_finish_output2+0x278/0x560 [ 32.150327] __ip_finish_output+0x1fe/0x2f0 [ 32.150690] ip_finish_output+0x2a/0xd0 [ 32.151032] ip_output+0x7a/0x110 [ 32.151337] ? __pfx_ip_finish_output+0x10/0x10 [ 32.151733] ip_local_out+0x5e/0x70 [ 32.152054] ip_send_skb+0x19/0x50 [ 32.152366] udp_send_skb.isra.0+0x163/0x3a0 [ 32.152736] udp_sendmsg+0xba8/0xec0 [ 32.153060] ? __folio_memcg_unlock+0x25/0x60 [ 32.153445] ? __pfx_ip_generic_getfrag+0x10/0x10 [ 32.153854] ? sock_has_perm+0x85/0xa0 [ 32.154190] inet_sendmsg+0x6d/0x80 [ 32.154508] ? inet_sendmsg+0x6d/0x80 [ 32.154838] sock_sendmsg+0x62/0x70 [ 32.155152] ____sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x290 [ 32.155499] ___sys_sendmsg+0x81/0xc0 [ 32.155828] ? _get_random_bytes.part.0+0x79/0x1a0 [ 32.156240] ? ip4_datagram_release_cb+0x5f/0x1e0 [ 32.156649] ? get_random_u16+0x69/0xf0 [ 32.156989] ? __fget_light+0xcf/0x110 [ 32.157326] __sys_sendmmsg+0xc4/0x210 [ 32.157657] ? __sys_connect+0xb7/0xe0 [ 32.157995] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xce/0x140 [ 32.158388] ? syscall_trace_enter.isra.0+0x12c/0x1a0 [ 32.158820] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x24/0x30 [ 32.159171] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [ 32.159493] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc Fix that by reducing txq number as the non-existent primary-dev does.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.21% 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

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

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

Ubuntu120 products
  • linux< 5.4.0-156.173 | < 5.15.0-79.86
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.4.0-1107.115 | < 5.15.0-1042.47
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.25-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74, < 105cc268328231d5c2bfcbd03f265cec444a3492 | ≥ cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74, < f032e125149d914e542548c17ebd613851031368 | ≥ cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74, < 2d5cebf57296f0189a61482035ad420384eedead | ≥ cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74, < c942f5cd63b7c2e73fe06744185a34b03267595b | ≥ cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74, < 44d250c22209c680f61befbc2ac326da5452da01 | ≥ cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74, < e3cbdcb0fbb61045ef3ce0e072927cc41737f787 | 4.18

3 vendors · 122 products

References

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