CVE-2023-53088

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53088
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53088.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53088
Downstream
BELL (1)
CLSA (1)
DEBIAN (1)
RHSA (2)
RXSA (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2025-05-02T15:55:34Z
Modified
2026-10-20T10:30:30Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
mptcp: fix UaF in listener shutdown
Details

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

mptcp: fix UaF in listener shutdown

As reported by Christoph after having refactored the passive socket initialization, the mptcp listener shutdown path is prone to an UaF issue.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x73/0xe0 Write of size 4 at addr ffff88810cb23098 by task syz-executor731/1266

CPU: 1 PID: 1266 Comm: syz-executor731 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc59af4eaa31c1f6c00c8f1e448ed99a45c66340dd5 #6 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x91 print_report+0x16a/0x46f kasan_report+0xad/0x130 kasan_check_range+0x14a/0x1a0 _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x73/0xe0 subflow_error_report+0x6d/0x110 sk_error_report+0x3b/0x190 tcp_disconnect+0x138c/0x1aa0 inet_child_forget+0x6f/0x2e0 inet_csk_listen_stop+0x209/0x1060 __mptcp_close_ssk+0x52d/0x610 mptcp_destroy_common+0x165/0x640 mptcp_destroy+0x13/0x80 __mptcp_destroy_sock+0xe7/0x270 __mptcp_close+0x70e/0x9b0 mptcp_close+0x2b/0x150 inet_release+0xe9/0x1f0 __sock_release+0xd2/0x280 sock_close+0x15/0x20 __fput+0x252/0xa20 task_work_run+0x169/0x250 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x113/0x120 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40 do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

The msk grace period can legitly expire in between the last reference count dropped in mptcp_subflow_queue_clean() and the later eventual access in inet_csk_listen_stop()

After the previous patch we don't need anymore special-casing msk listener socket cleanup: the mptcp worker will process each of the unaccepted msk sockets.

Just drop the now unnecessary code.

Please note this commit depends on the two parent ones:

mptcp: refactor passive socket initialization mptcp: use the workqueue to destroy unaccepted sockets

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53088.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6aeed9045071f2252ff4e98fc13d1e304f33e5b0
Fixed
5564be74a22a61855f8b8c100d8c4abb003bb792
Fixed
0f4f4cf5d32f10543deb946a37111e714579511e
Fixed
0a3f4f1f9c27215e4ddcd312558342e57b93e518
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.18.10
Fixed
5.19
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a8a3e95c74e48c2c9b07b81fafda9122993f2e12

Affected versions

v5.*
v5.18.10
v5.18.11
v5.18.12
v5.18.13
v5.18.14
v5.18.15
v5.18.16
v5.18.17
v5.18.18
v5.18.19

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53088.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.19.0
Fixed
6.1.22
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.2.8

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53088.json"