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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2023-53136

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/02/2025 12:15:32 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added 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
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2aab4b96900272885bc157f8b236abf1cdc02e08
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a59d6306263c38e5c0592ea4451ca26a0778c947
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac1968ac399205fda9ee3b18f7de7416cb3a5d0d
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3969427fb06a2c3cd6efd7faab63505cfa76e76