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Red Hat: CVE-2023-52735: kernel: bpf, sockmap: Don't let sock_map_{close,destroy,unhash} call itself (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Sep 13, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf, sockmap: Don't let sock_map_{close,destroy,unhash} call itself

sock_map proto callbacks should never call themselves by design. Protect
against bugs like [1] and break out of the recursive loop to avoid a stack
overflow in favor of a resource leak.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Solutions

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