[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"repo-stars":3,"vuln-DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53240":6},{"stargazers_count":4,"fetched_at":5},7,"2026-06-04T14:53:31.930Z",{"id":7,"descriptions":8,"cisa":9,"weaknesses":10,"exploits":11,"aliases":12,"duplicate_of":9,"upstream":13,"downstream":16,"duplicates":17,"related":18,"reserved_at":9,"published_at":19,"modified_at":20,"state":9,"summary":21,"references_raw":23,"kevs":30,"epss":9,"epss_history":31,"metrics":32,"affected":39},"DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53240","In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  xsk: check IFF_UP earlier in Tx path  Xsk Tx can be triggered via either sendmsg() or poll() syscalls. These two paths share a call to common function xsk_xmit() which has two sanity checks within. A pseudo code example to show the two paths:  __xsk_sendmsg() :                       xsk_poll(): if (unlikely(!xsk_is_bound(xs)))        if (unlikely(!xsk_is_bound(xs)))     return -ENXIO;                          return mask; if (unlikely(need_wait))                (...)     return -EOPNOTSUPP;                 xsk_xmit() mark napi id (...) xsk_xmit()  xsk_xmit(): if (unlikely(!(xs->dev->flags & IFF_UP))) \treturn -ENETDOWN; if (unlikely(!xs->tx)) \treturn -ENOBUFS;  As it can be observed above, in sendmsg() napi id can be marked on interface that was not brought up and this causes a NULL ptr dereference:  [31757.505631] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018 [31757.512710] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [31757.517936] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [31757.523149] PGD 0 P4D 0 [31757.525726] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [31757.530154] CPU: 26 PID: 95641 Comm: xdpsock Not tainted 6.2.0-rc5+ #40 [31757.536871] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0008.031920191559 03/19/2019 [31757.547457] RIP: 0010:xsk_sendmsg+0xde/0x180 [31757.551799] Code: 00 75 a2 48 8b 00 a8 04 75 9b 84 d2 74 69 8b 85 14 01 00 00 85 c0 75 1b 48 8b 85 28 03 00 00 48 8b 80 98 00 00 00 48 8b 40 20 \u003C8b> 40 18 89 85 14 01 00 00 8b bd 14 01 00 00 81 ff 00 01 00 00 0f [31757.570840] RSP: 0018:ffffc90034f27dc0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [31757.576143] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc90034f27e18 RCX: 0000000000000000 [31757.583389] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffc90034f27e18 RDI: ffff88984cf3c100 [31757.590631] RBP: ffff88984714a800 R08: ffff88984714a800 R09: 0000000000000000 [31757.597877] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffffa [31757.605123] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000 [31757.612364] FS:  00007fb4c5931180(0000) GS:ffff88afdfa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [31757.620571] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [31757.626406] CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000184b41c003 CR4: 00000000007706e0 [31757.633648] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [31757.640894] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [31757.648139] PKRU: 55555554 [31757.650894] Call Trace: [31757.653385]  \u003CTASK> [31757.655524]  sock_sendmsg+0x8f/0xa0 [31757.659077]  ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x12/0x70 [31757.663416]  __sys_sendto+0xfc/0x170 [31757.667051]  ? do_sched_setscheduler+0xdb/0x1b0 [31757.671658]  __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30 [31757.675557]  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [31757.679197]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc [31757.687969] Code: 8e f6 ff 44 8b 4c 24 2c 4c 8b 44 24 20 41 89 c4 44 8b 54 24 28 48 8b 54 24 18 b8 2c 00 00 00 48 8b 74 24 10 8b 7c 24 08 0f 05 \u003C48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 3a 44 89 e7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 b5 8e f6 ff 48 [31757.707007] RSP: 002b:00007ffd49c73c70 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c [31757.714694] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055a996565380 RCX: 00007fb4c5727c16 [31757.721939] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [31757.729184] RBP: 0000000000000040 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [31757.736429] R10: 0000000000000040 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000 [31757.743673] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [31757.754940]  \u003C/TASK>  To fix this, let's make xsk_xmit a function that will be responsible for generic Tx, where RCU is handled accordingly and pull out sanity checks and xs->zc handling. Populate sanity checks to __xsk_sendmsg() and xsk_poll().",null,[],[],[],[14],{"_key":15},"CVE-2023-53240",[],[],[],"2025-09-15T15:15:51.120Z","2026-04-28T20:26:56.041957Z",{"cisa_kev":22,"cisa_ransomware":22,"cisa_vendor":9,"epss_severity":9,"epss_score":9,"severity":9,"severity_score":9,"severity_version":9,"severity_source":9,"severity_vector":9,"severity_status":9},false,[24],{"url":25,"sources":26,"tags":28},"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53240",[27],"osv_debian",[29],"Advisory",[],[],[33],{"source":27,"cvss_v2_0":9,"cvss_v3_0":9,"cvss_v3_1":34,"cvss_v4_0":9},{"baseScore":35,"baseSeverity":9,"vectorString":36,"impactScore":37,"exploitabilityScore":38},5.5,"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",6,4.6,[40],{"ecosystem":41,"name":42,"vendor":43,"product":42,"cpe_part":9,"purl_type":44,"purl_namespace":43,"purl_name":42,"source":9,"versions":45},"Debian","linux","debian","deb",[46,52,53],{"version":47,"is_range":48,"range_type":49,"version_start":9,"version_start_type":9,"version_end":50,"version_end_type":51,"fixed_in":9},"lt6_1_20_1",true,"ecosystem","6.1.20-1","excluding",{"version":47,"is_range":48,"range_type":49,"version_start":9,"version_start_type":9,"version_end":50,"version_end_type":51,"fixed_in":9},{"version":47,"is_range":48,"range_type":49,"version_start":9,"version_start_type":9,"version_end":50,"version_end_type":51,"fixed_in":9}]