Vulnerability details

CVE-2023-53272

Linux Linux

net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff

CVSS 3.1
7.1High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff The ENA adapters on our instances occasionally reset. Once recently logged a UBSAN failure to console in the process: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in build/linux/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c:540:13 shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int' CPU: 28 PID: 70012 Comm: kworker/u72:2 Kdump: loaded not tainted 5.15.117 Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017 Workqueue: ena ena_fw_reset_device [ena] Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x63 dump_stack+0x10/0x16 ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x36 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x61/0x10e ? __const_udelay+0x43/0x50 ena_delay_exponential_backoff_us.cold+0x16/0x1e [ena] wait_for_reset_state+0x54/0xa0 [ena] ena_com_dev_reset+0xc8/0x110 [ena] ena_down+0x3fe/0x480 [ena] ena_destroy_device+0xeb/0xf0 [ena] ena_fw_reset_device+0x30/0x50 [ena] process_one_work+0x22b/0x3d0 worker_thread+0x4d/0x3f0 ? process_one_work+0x3d0/0x3d0 kthread+0x12a/0x150 ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK> Apparently, the reset delays are getting so large they can trigger a UBSAN panic. Looking at the code, the current timeout is capped at 5000us. Using a base value of 100us, the current code will overflow after (1<<29). Even at values before 32, this function wraps around, perhaps unintentionally. Cap the value of the exponent used for this backoff at (1<<16) which is larger than currently necessary, but large enough to support bigger values in the future.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.1High 3.1 CISA ADP / Vulnrichment (CISA-ADP) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 5.8 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f ≤ v < 1e760b2d18bf129b3da052c2946c02758e97d15e CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f ≤ v < 3e36cc94d6e60a27f27498adf1c71eeba769ab33 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f ≤ v < 90947ebf8794e3c229fb2e16e37f1bfea6877f14 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f ≤ v < 0939c264729d4a081ff88efce2ffdf85dc5331e0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 4bb7f4cf60e38a00965d22aa5979ab143193d41f ≤ v < 1e9cb763e9bacf0c932aa948f50dcfca6f519a26 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2025-09-16
Last updated
2026-05-11
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.16%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
5.5%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-125
    Out-of-bounds Read