vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-53136): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | May 2, 2025 | May 8, 2025 | Nov 13, 2025 |
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
Solutions
References
- CVE-2023-53136
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-53136
- CWE-125
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/2aab4b96900272885bc157f8b236abf1cdc02e08
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2aab4b96900272885bc157f8b236abf1cdc02e08
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a59d6306263c38e5c0592ea4451ca26a0778c947
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac1968ac399205fda9ee3b18f7de7416cb3a5d0d
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3969427fb06a2c3cd6efd7faab63505cfa76e76
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53136
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