CVE-2023-53705
ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv()
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
22 Oct 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv()
optlen is fetched without checking whether there is more than one byte to parse.
It can lead to out-of-bounds access.
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/011f47c8b8389154f996f5f69da8efc3a3beefefhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04bf69e3de435d793a203aacc4b774f8f9f2baebhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59e656d0d4a84ea0ee9a39c6f69160a3effccc94https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/878ecb0897f4737a4c9401f3523fd49589025671https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91dd8aab9c9f193210681b86b6b92840ffe74f0chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b92e2d0eb696d7586ba832c8854653b59887da0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae68c0f7edbc9a294094ce03a0aaf45aa489ce40https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5f82688ae10f5f386952e65e941bb8868ee54dc