CVE-2023-53136
af_unix: fix struct pid leaks in OOB support
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
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
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
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Timeline
- 2025-05-02 CVE Reserved
- 2025-05-02 CVE Published
- 2025-05-02 CVE Updated
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- ---------- Exploited in Wild
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- ---------- First Exploit
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References (5)
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 | Vuln. Introduced |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.15 < 5.15.103 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.15 < 5.15.103" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.15 < 6.1.20 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.15 < 6.1.20" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.15 < 6.2.7 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.15 < 6.2.7" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.15 < 6.3 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.15 < 6.3" | en |
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