CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53204
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight.
user->unix_inflight is changed under spin_lock(unix_gc_lock),
but too_many_unix_fds() reads it locklessly.
Let's annotate the write/read accesses to user->unix_inflight.
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_attach_fds / unix_inflight
write to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44798 on cpu 1:
unix_inflight+0x157/0x180 net/unix/scm.c:66
unix_attach_fds+0x147/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:123
unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline]
unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950
unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline]
unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748
____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494
___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548
__sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
read to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44814 on cpu 0:
too_many_unix_fds net/unix/scm.c:101 [inline]
unix_attach_fds+0x54/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:110
unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline]
unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950
unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline]
unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748
____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494
___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548
__sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
value changed: 0x000000000000000c -> 0x000000000000000d
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 44814 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.4.0-11989-g6843306689af #6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.2.78 < 3.3)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.10.96 < 3.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.12.57 < 3.13)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.14.60 < 3.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.18.27 < 3.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.1.17 < 4.2)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.3.5 < 4.4)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.4.1 < 4.14.326)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.295)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.257)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.195)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.132)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03d133dfbcec9d439729cc64706c7eb6d1663a24 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bc36c0650b21df36fbec8136add83936eaf0607 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9151ed4b006125cba7c06c79df504340ea4e9386 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac92f239a079678a035c0faad9089354a874aede Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adcf4e069358cdee8593663650ea447215a1c49e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b401d7e485b0a234cf8fe9a6ae99dbcd20863138 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9cdbb38e030fc2fe97fe27b54cbb6b4fbff250f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df97b5ea9f3ac9308c3a633524dab382cd59d9e5 Patch