CVE-2023-53539

Updated: 2026-02-27 04:31:37.263296

Description:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix incomplete state save in rxe_requester If a send packet is dropped by the IP layer in rxe_requester() the call to rxe_xmit_packet() can fail with err == -EAGAIN. To recover, the state of the wqe is restored to the state before the packet was sent so it can be resent. However, the routines that save and restore the state miss a significnt part of the variable state in the wqe, the dma struct which is used to process through the sge table. And, the state is not saved before the packet is built which modifies the dma struct. Under heavy stress testing with many QPs on a fast node sending large messages to a slow node dropped packets are observed and the resent packets are corrupted because the dma struct was not restored. This patch fixes this behavior and allows the test cases to succeed.


Links NIST CIRCL RHEL Ubuntu

Severity

Severity Score
CVSS Version 2.x 0.0
CVSS Version 3.x MEDIUM 5.5

Status

OS name Project name Version Score Severity Status Errata Last updated

Statement

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU kernel 5.14.0 5.5 MEDIUM Released CLSA-2025:1764151168 2025-11-27 10:33:38
CentOS 8.4 ELS kernel 4.18.0 5.5 MEDIUM In Testing 2026-02-21 13:55:23 Deprioritize: this bug only exists in the Linux RDMA/rxe (software RoCE) requester resend path and i...
CentOS 8.5 ELS kernel 4.18.0 5.5 MEDIUM In Testing 2026-02-21 13:55:27 Deprioritize: this bug only exists in the Linux RDMA/rxe (software RoCE) requester resend path and i...
CentOS Stream 8 ELS kernel 4.18.0 5.5 MEDIUM Released CLSA-2026:1770032032 2026-02-02 15:43:38
Ubuntu 16.04 ELS linux-hwe 4.15.0 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2026-02-16 23:00:42 Deprioritize: this bug only exists in the Linux RDMA/rxe (software RoCE) requester resend path and i...
Ubuntu 18.04 ELS linux 4.15.0 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2026-02-16 23:00:09 Deprioritize: this bug only exists in the Linux RDMA/rxe (software RoCE) requester resend path and i...