CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53136
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: fix struct pid leaks in OOB support
syzbot reported struct pid leak [1].
Issue is that queue_oob() calls maybe_add_creds() which potentially
holds a reference on a pid.
But skb->destructor is not set (either directly or by calling
unix_scm_to_skb())
This means that subsequent kfree_skb() or consume_skb() would leak
this reference.
In this fix, I chose to fully support scm even for the OOB message.
[1]
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8881053e7f80 (size 128):
comm "syz-executor242", pid 5066, jiffies 4294946079 (age 13.220s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff812ae26a>] alloc_pid+0x6a/0x560 kernel/pid.c:180
[<ffffffff812718df>] copy_process+0x169f/0x26c0 kernel/fork.c:2285
[<ffffffff81272b37>] kernel_clone+0xf7/0x610 kernel/fork.c:2684
[<ffffffff812730cc>] __do_sys_clone+0x7c/0xb0 kernel/fork.c:2825
[<ffffffff849ad699>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<ffffffff849ad699>] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<ffffffff84a0008b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2aab4b96900272885bc157f8b236abf1cdc02e08 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a59d6306263c38e5c0592ea4451ca26a0778c947 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac1968ac399205fda9ee3b18f7de7416cb3a5d0d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3969427fb06a2c3cd6efd7faab63505cfa76e76 Patch