CVE-2023-53136

af_unix: fix struct pid leaks in OOB support

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 2, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 2, 2025

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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

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 to before f3969427fb06a2c3cd6efd7faab63505cfa76e76Affected
  • 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 to before ac1968ac399205fda9ee3b18f7de7416cb3a5d0dAffected
  • 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 to before a59d6306263c38e5c0592ea4451ca26a0778c947Affected
  • 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 to before 2aab4b96900272885bc157f8b236abf1cdc02e08Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15Affected
  • before 5.15Not affected
  • 5.15.103 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.20 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.7 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

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