CVE-2023-53136

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53136
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53136.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53136
Related
Published
2025-05-02T16:15:32Z
Modified
2025-05-05T20:54:19Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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 queueoob() calls maybeadd_creds() which potentially holds a reference on a pid.

But skb->destructor is not set (either directly or by calling unixscmto_skb())

This means that subsequent kfreeskb() or consumeskb() 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>] allocpid+0x6a/0x560 kernel/pid.c:180 [<ffffffff812718df>] copyprocess+0x169f/0x26c0 kernel/fork.c:2285 [<ffffffff81272b37>] kernelclone+0xf7/0x610 kernel/fork.c:2684 [<ffffffff812730cc>] _dosysclone+0x7c/0xb0 kernel/fork.c:2825 [<ffffffff849ad699>] dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff849ad699>] dosyscall64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84a0008b>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.20-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.20-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}