CVE-2023-54065
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.
EPSS 0.02% · 7.0th percentile
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Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.18, 5.18, 5.18 |
| Linux | Linux | aac94001067da183455d6d37959892744fa01d9d, aac94001067da183455d6d37959892744fa01d9d, 0 |
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Timeline
- Dec 24, 2025 CVE Published
- Dec 24, 2025 PoC Published
- Dec 25, 2025 EPSS Score
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