CVE-2023-53733 (GCVE-0-2023-53733)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-24 11:44
Modified
2026-10-15 21:41
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: cls_u32: Undo tcf_bind_filter if u32_replace_hw_knode When u32_replace_hw_knode fails, we need to undo the tcf_bind_filter operation done at u32_set_parms.
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Linux Linux Version: d34e3e181395192d6d1f50dd97bd7854e04e33a4
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