CVE-2023-54142

gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().

syzkaller reported use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy(). [0]

It shows the same process freed sk and touched it illegally.

Commit e198987e7dd7 ("gtp: fix suspicious RCU usage") added lock_sock() and release_sock() in __gtp_encap_destroy() to protect sk->sk_user_data, but release_sock() is called after sock_put() releases the last refcnt.

[0]: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178 Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800dbef398 by task syz-executor.2/2401

CPU: 1 PID: 2401 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline] print_report+0xcc/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:462 kasan_report+0xb2/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:572 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:181 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x39/0x1c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:187 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline] queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline] do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline] __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178 spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:355 [inline] release_sock+0x1f/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:3526 gtp_encap_disable_sock drivers/net/gtp.c:651 [inline] gtp_encap_disable+0xb9/0x220 drivers/net/gtp.c:664 gtp_dev_uninit+0x19/0x50 drivers/net/gtp.c:728 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x97e/0x1520 net/core/dev.c:10841 rtnl_delete_link net/core/rtnetlink.c:3216 [inline] rtnl_dellink+0x3c0/0xb30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3268 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x450/0xb10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6423 netlink_rcv_skb+0x15d/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2548 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x700/0x930 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365 netlink_sendmsg+0x91c/0xe30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1913 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x200 net/socket.c:747 ____sys_sendmsg+0x75a/0x990 net/socket.c:2493 ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2547 __sys_sendmsg+0xfe/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2576 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc RIP: 0033:0x7f1168b1fe5d Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 73 9f 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f1167edccc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004bbf80 RCX: 00007f1168b1fe5d RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000200002c0 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00000000004bbf80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f1168b80530 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1483: kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x ---truncated---

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 01f3c64e405ab3d25887d080a103ad76f30661d2 to before d38039697184aacff1cf576e14ef583112fdefefAffected
  • e117a04133c673cc54292e12086a8177cd9bd4a4 to before e5aa6d829831a55a693dbaeb58f8d22ba7f2b3e6Affected
  • e198987e7dd7d3645a53875151cd6f8fc425b706 to before 9c9662e2512b5e4ee7b03108802c5222e0fa77a4Affected
  • e198987e7dd7d3645a53875151cd6f8fc425b706 to before bccc7ace12e69dee4684a3bb4b69737972e570d6Affected
  • e198987e7dd7d3645a53875151cd6f8fc425b706 to before ebd6d2077a083329110695a996c00e8ca94bc640Affected
  • e198987e7dd7d3645a53875151cd6f8fc425b706 to before 17d6b6354f0025b7c10a56da783fd0cbb3819c5dAffected
  • e198987e7dd7d3645a53875151cd6f8fc425b706 to before dae6095bdb24f537b4798ffd9201515b97bac94eAffected
  • e198987e7dd7d3645a53875151cd6f8fc425b706 to before 58fa341327fdb4bdf92597fd8796a9abc8d20ea3Affected
  • e198987e7dd7d3645a53875151cd6f8fc425b706 to before ce3aee7114c575fab32a5e9e939d4bbb3dcca79fAffected
  • bf75202df8e473d4ee914894542f213158066d8bAffected
  • 76357f65f18f180f44ccbbbf713461881d0ab219Affected
  • 4.14.135 to before 4.14.322Affected
  • 4.19.61 to before 4.19.291Affected
  • 5.1.20 to before 5.2Affected
  • 5.2.3 to before 5.3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.3Affected
  • before 5.3Not affected
  • 4.14.322 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.291 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.251 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.188 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.121 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.39 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.3.13 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4.4 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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