CVE-2023-53635 Affecting libperf package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-LIBPERF-13467342
  • published8 Oct 2025
  • disclosed7 Oct 2025

Introduced: 7 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2023-53635  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:9 libperf.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libperf package and not the libperf package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: conntrack: fix wrong ct->timeout value

(struct nf_conn)->timeout is an interval before the conntrack confirmed. After confirmed, it becomes a timestamp.

It is observed that timeout of an unconfirmed conntrack:

  • Set by calling ctnetlink_change_timeout(). As a result, nfct_time_stamp was wrongly added to ct->timeout twice.
  • Get by calling ctnetlink_dump_timeout(). As a result, nfct_time_stamp was wrongly subtracted.

Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl ctnetlink_dump_timeout __ctnetlink_glue_build ctnetlink_glue_build __nfqnl_enqueue_packet nf_queue nf_hook_slow ip_mc_output ? __pfx_ip_finish_output ip_send_skb ? __pfx_dst_output udp_send_skb udp_sendmsg ? __pfx_ip_generic_getfrag sock_sendmsg

Separate the 2 cases in:

  • Setting ct-&gt;timeout in __nf_ct_set_timeout().
  • Getting ct-&gt;timeout in ctnetlink_dump_timeout().

Pablo appends:

Update ctnetlink to set up the timeout after the IPS_CONFIRMED flag is set on, otherwise conntrack creation via ctnetlink breaks.

Note that the problem described in this patch occurs since the introduction of the nfnetlink_queue conntrack support, select a sufficiently old Fixes: tag for -stable kernel to pick up this fix.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1