{"cve":"CVE-2023-53134","nvd":{"published":"2025-05-02T16:15:32.353","modified":"2026-06-17T06:44:21.617","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnxt_en: Avoid order-5 memory allocation for TPA data\n\nThe driver needs to keep track of all the possible concurrent TPA (GRO/LRO)\ncompletions on the aggregation ring.  On P5 chips, the maximum number\nof concurrent TPA is 256 and the amount of memory we allocate is order-5\non systems using 4K pages.  Memory allocation failure has been reported:\n\nNetworkManager: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1\nCPU: 15 PID: 2995 Comm: NetworkManager Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.10.156 #1\nHardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R660/0M1CC5, BIOS 0.2.25 08/12/2022\nCall Trace:\n dump_stack+0x57/0x6e\n warn_alloc.cold.120+0x7b/0xdd\n ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30\n ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x15f/0x170\n __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.108+0xc58/0xc70\n __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2d0/0x300\n kmalloc_order+0x24/0xe0\n kmalloc_order_trace+0x19/0x80\n bnxt_alloc_mem+0x1150/0x15c0 [bnxt_en]\n ? bnxt_get_func_stat_ctxs+0x13/0x60 [bnxt_en]\n __bnxt_open_nic+0x12e/0x780 [bnxt_en]\n bnxt_open+0x10b/0x240 [bnxt_en]\n __dev_open+0xe9/0x180\n __dev_change_flags+0x1af/0x220\n dev_change_flags+0x21/0x60\n do_setlink+0x35c/0x1100\n\nInstead of allocating this big chunk of memory and dividing it up for the\nconcurrent TPA instances, allocate each small chunk separately for each\nTPA instance.  This will reduce it to order-0 allocations.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16f3aae1aa2dd89bc8d073a67f190af580386ae9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20fd0607acbf9770db9b99e3418dd75614f80b6c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/accd7e23693aaaa9aa0d3e9eca0ae77d1be80ab3","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad529d1fae1565d38f929479d4ea8aea90054bd2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d16701a385b54f44bf41ff1d7485e7a11080deb3"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:01:22.920403922+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-53134","score":0.00189,"percentile":0.08516,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}