CVE-2023-53136

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53136
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53136.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53136
Downstream
Published
2025-05-02T15:56:08.940Z
Modified
2026-05-15T11:53:54.411282460Z
Summary
af_unix: fix struct pid leaks in OOB support
Details

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 queueoob() calls maybeadd_creds() which potentially holds a reference on a pid.

But skb->destructor is not set (either directly or by calling unixscmto_skb())

This means that subsequent kfreeskb() or consumeskb() 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>] allocpid+0x6a/0x560 kernel/pid.c:180 [<ffffffff812718df>] copyprocess+0x169f/0x26c0 kernel/fork.c:2285 [<ffffffff81272b37>] kernel_clone+0xf7/0x610 kernel/fork.c:2684 [<ffffffff812730cc>] __dosysclone+0x7c/0xb0 kernel/fork.c:2825 [<ffffffff849ad699>] dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff849ad699>] dosyscall64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84a0008b>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53136.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.15.0
Fixed
5.15.103
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.20
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.2.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53136.json"