CVE-2023-53020

l2tp: close all race conditions in l2tp_tunnel_register()

State
Published
Severity
4.7 Medium
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Mar 27, 2025

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Description

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

l2tp: close all race conditions in l2tp_tunnel_register()

The code in l2tp_tunnel_register() is racy in several ways:

1. It modifies the tunnel socket _after_ publishing it.

2. It calls setup_udp_tunnel_sock() on an existing socket without locking.

3. It changes sock lock class on fly, which triggers many syzbot reports.

This patch amends all of them by moving socket initialization code before publishing and under sock lock. As suggested by Jakub, the l2tp lockdep class is not necessary as we can just switch to bh_lock_sock_nested().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 37159ef2c1ae1e696b24b260b241209a19f92c60 to before 2d77e5c0ad79004b5ef901895437e9cce6dfcc7eAffected
  • 37159ef2c1ae1e696b24b260b241209a19f92c60 to before 77e8ed776cdb1a24b2aab8fe7c6f1f154235e1ceAffected
  • 37159ef2c1ae1e696b24b260b241209a19f92c60 to before cef0845b6dcfa2f6c2c832e7f9622551456c741dAffected
  • 37159ef2c1ae1e696b24b260b241209a19f92c60 to before 0b2c59720e65885a394a017d0cf9cab118914682Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.6Affected
  • before 3.6Not affected
  • 5.10.166 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.91 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.9 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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